We cannot let the worst of humanity wield a gun in a mad rage against their fellow soldiers.

I'm asking, and have been asking my fellow Texans as well as all Americans to please keep Fort Hood families in their prayers.

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

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.

There are laws on the books today that would fix immigration reform, but they are not being enforced.

The term workforce violence has consequences at the DOD. And that's the real issue I have been concerned about since day one.

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

And what I am driving at, of course, in the instance Mr. Fattah mentioned were the 3 million folks that were granted amnesty under President Reagan, that was a congressional decision, statute, following the statute that Congress has…

All of which, if they were American citizens, would go before our Child Protective Services and probably be taken away from their parents rather than turned over to a criminal organization.

I believe that our Congress has one of the toughest jobs in our Nation today.

I thought it was a very interesting bill and I think it could have a very important impact.

Chairman Rogers, thank you for the time and thank you, more importantly, for the leadership that you and Ranking Member Lowey have shown in completing this process and giving us a fiscal year 2014 appropriation bill. I rise in support of…