On the recordJuly 31, 2014
I would say to my colleagues, as chairman of the homeland security committee, I have been down to a number of Central American countries--Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador. If there is anybody that needs a U.S. ambassador down there, it is Guatemala. We see all these young people, not so young people, coming to this country, trying to get in this country. The reason they are coming up here is there is no hope--no economic hope, crime, lack of opportunity--and we have no ambassador there. We haven't had an ambassador there for months. I would just make a plea for the chairman to make a unanimous consent if only for the Ambassador to Guatemala. And I would just plead with my colleague, my friend from Wyoming, not to object.
