John Rice Carter

When I was in Taiwan in October, everybody, including the cab drivers, were telling me that they needed their F-16s.

We look forward to that report in May. It is important to our community.

I represent Fort Hood, and the community that I represent has a keen interest in this issue.

They are also disrupting Federal offices and insubordination shouldn't be tolerated.

The law is not being enforced.

If you just enforce the law as it is written you are protecting the community.

It will just break your heart to see these families.

It should be a concern of the citizens of the United States that... they know they overwhelm the process.

I, for one, am a champion of trying to get us another icebreaker, but they are really expensive.

But ultimately we have got to be able to have access up there.

We need the icebreakers, because I can send our conventional Coast Guard cutters up there during the summertime...

We want operations to work. And I agree wholeheartedly, and so does everyone on both sides of the aisle in this subcommittee.

The enemy in the drug wars never stops. They will find alternate sources, when we plug one hole, they find another one.

We did approximately 30 percent worse in terms of cocaine interdictions this past year because of the effects of cutbacks of sequestration.

I commend you also for being a man who says, 'I take responsibility.' That is rare before this Committee.

I agree that you have to have available 34,000 beds under this law.

There is no one more committed to enforce the law than Henry's constituents.

The law is mandatory, you agree, nondiscretionary, mandatory, shall.

What we have here is a budget proposal that, if ever enacted, would result in more drugs on our streets, more illegal border incursions.

We all know a political election-year budget proposal when we see one, and I am afraid that is what we have here today.

Either this Administration does not see homeland security and law enforcement as important or it is trying to game Congress.

There will be alternative bills drafted, and ultimately, we will let this process do it the way it is supposed to do under regular orders.

I am for immigration reform, and folks in my district know it.

I disagree on the Senate bill, as does most of the Republican Members of Congress and quite a few Republican Members of the Senate.

I can tell you that in my subcommittee on Homeland Security, we have sat and heard the conversation from all the Departments that it is the policy of the government to only go after criminal aliens.