Surely we can live up to the spirit of Lady Liberty and open our arms to immigrant families who just want to make a better for their children.

Recently, last session, Will Hurd, a very well-respected Republican member, and Pete Aguilar, introduced a very similar bill.

We want to have maximum transparency to ensure that USCIS is not imposing unreasonable requirements on immigrants who deserve our attention and our mercy.

What does USCIS recommend families like his do while the agency is trying to decide how to reinstate deferred action?

You have implemented a policy that yanks social services and denies the ability of children legal status to immigrate here if they are going to use social services.

Have you noticed that they've taken any significant steps toward addressing the impact of climate change and their effect on climate change in communities of color?

However, ExxonMobil's corporate website recently stated, and I quote, 'Current scientific understanding provides limited guidance on the likelihood, magnitude, or timeframe.'

As my colleagues I know mentioned, ExxonMobil has a long, treacherous history of hiding what it knew about climate science.

This seems like a double-down on their old-fashioned playbook of denial and obfuscation to me.

When you explore for new oil and gas reserves, you are committing to developing and using those reserves 20, 30, 40, 50, even 100 years into the future, and that belies their claim to be committed to this issue.

We are standing here today because the President has decided that a campaign promise is more important than the safety and security of our Nation. Earlier this month, the President stole funds from our brave servicemembers to pay for a…

I support harm reduction, public health activities. Advocates often describe e-cigarettes as a harm reduction for smokers, but I'm concerned that we don't actually know enough to say with confidence that e-cigarettes reduce harm.

Your advice, like the CDC, has been for people to not use any e-cigarette products.

Thank you so much. I've had the honor of working with CDC on a number of different important initiatives, and the work of you and your colleagues is really remarkable.

It is important that we hear from partners like you at the state level, collaborating with the Federal Government, to stop what is a national outbreak of lung illness.

No health benefits to nicotine; in fact, nicotine addiction is harmful, particularly to the developing brain.

Do you think a ban on flavors of any type would bring a dramatic reduction to people who either might be attracted to the flavors to begin vaping?

So it's not just nicotine--that is the public health problem and the threat.

the President's nearly daily rhetoric and policy that demonizes and dehumanizes immigrants and people of color.

I think about the President smiling at a rally in Florida when an attendee suggested border patrol should shoot immigrants crossing the border.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I thank my colleague from Texas, the ranking member of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, for being such an incredible partner in our work together, and…

should we consider weaponized white supremacy ... a key threat to our election security?

And they're also potentially eligible for health benefits as well in that process, obviously, or they wouldn't be applying for deferred action?

It is imperative that Maria Isabel continues to receive this treatment for her life threatening disease.

For that, our country should be ashamed and I am so sorry.