"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."
"It will just break your heart to see these families."
"there is no one more committed to enforce the law than Henry's constituents."
"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."
"the law is mandatory, you agree, nondiscretionary, mandatory, shall."
"They are also disrupting Federal offices and insubordination shouldn't be tolerated."
"The law is not being enforced."
"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."