It is frustrating to hear this partisan blame going back and forth.

Is there a more profound threat to democracy than that?

First, I would like to remind my Democratic colleagues that the House acted last month to increase the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion. They all voted against it.

If you don't like our plan, why isn't the Senate passing a bill? Why isn't the President proposing something?

We have had an election, the House is in the majority, we don't agree with the massive spending that has taken place under this administration.

There has been a massive expansion of the Federal Government intruding in every area of our lives, and we have to pull it back.

The Dems tell us this is just a hemispheric problem beyond our control, but when we had the Remain in Mexico policy and were completing the border wall and were enforcing court-ordered deportations didn't illegal immigration slow to a…

It is well past time that we enforce the law, secure our border, and we should pass--the Senate should pass the bill that we passed in the House just a few weeks ago, so we can get our border under control and secure.

Under the Immigration and Naturalization Act foreign nationals claiming asylum are required to be detained until their claim is heard. Are they?

And the trestle project would have prevented that, would it not?

I ask unanimous consent.

the lands that you are responsible for--are densely overgrown, stressed, and dying, and you lose money doing that.