ADAM PUTNAM: “There is no more important issue for this Congress than the issue of resolving the situation in Iraq moving forward…”

Madam Speaker, we need to get the boots on the ground to secure our borders, the money for 1,200 new Border Patrol agents, new Customs officials, and the modernization and authorization for our intelligence and law enforcement officials to…

I thank the Speaker, and I would inform my friend from Florida that I have no further speakers and we prepared to close as well.

I remind the gentleman again that the House had an opportunity to pass a minimum wage bill, and we passed it over the objections of the other side of the aisle. We passed it.

There are no excuses and no escapegoats left.