"If you just enforce the law as it is written you are protecting the community."
"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 need the icebreakers, because I can send our conventional Coast Guard cutters up there during the summertime..."
"We did approximately 30 percent worse in terms of cocaine interdictions this past year because of the effects of cutbacks of sequestration."
"We want operations to work. And I agree wholeheartedly, and so does everyone on both sides of the aisle in this subcommittee."
"But ultimately we have got to be able to have access up there."
"We cannot let the worst of humanity wield a gun in a mad rage against their fellow soldiers."
"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."