John Rice Carter

I found the logic that has been argued to this committee very peculiar over this issue.

It is a shame that we have to witness this, it is a shame that we have to lose American citizens injured and killed.

Whatever it takes, we need to do it.

Well this nation should never send any of your people in harm's way without training and that has got to be our first priority.

What happens when some illegal alien runs over and kills somebody about the age of some of these folks out here in this audience?

Our goal is not to spend decades rebuilding, but to get the communities back on their feet, get people back into affordable housing, and move this recovery to a point where the communities are able to take over and continue the final work…

I don't like the President's sequester, and I don't agree with it. As a policy tool or any other way, it is the wrong thing to do.

I think a good point that you've clearly made, ``sequestration'' should be a definition of our failure to meet our constitutional responsibility. And it just can't happen. So I want to end by encouraging both sides of the aisle and all my…

Again, it's never been a solution for failed enforcement to fire all the police officers and get rid of them and then hope it will all work out. Without speaking to the criticisms of the gentleman, the terrorist threat is still real. This…

This amendment seeks to cut critical funds for enforcing our Nation's immigration laws. Those laws are important to be enforced. I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment. I yield back the balance of my time.

The electoral system cannot inspire public confidence if no safeguards exist to deter or detect fraud or to confirm the identity of voters.

I really want to put the idea in your head that we need to crowdsource the Veterans Administration...

I think you have a great forward view at the VA.

I want to make sure these victims are going to have the benefits and the facilities necessary to take care of them.

I have a lot of concerns in that area just because of my background, and one of the areas that we keep hearing, unfortunately hearing, bad rumors about is sexual assault issues in the military.

I think it is an awesome program. I am glad Mr. Dicks brought it up. I think it is a big solution to the homeless problem.

He couldn't be more pleased with the service they gave him. He said they were professional, they were compassionate.

I am afraid, like you say, 252 by 2016, that could very quickly become overwhelming.

It will shut down the entire western half of two counties in my district, which are the two fastest-growing counties in the United States.

I am for getting as many assets in the hands of the Coast Guard as we can.

Each one of those lives lost matters to me. They are my neighbors.

According to the fiscal year 2013 budget, the Coast Guard will be at a five-year low for drug interdiction capability.

I have always thought since I have been on this subcommittee since 2004, that the Coast Guard was the shining light in the Homeland Security Department.

I am very concerned about these cuts that we are talking about that both the chairman and the ranking member have already brought up, the high-endurance cutter, the terminating patrol boat, high tempo, high maintenance program.

You guys are our offensive weapon that are going down there. And you are in the field and you are doing a good job at it.