Mike Collins: “I thank Representative Biggs for yielding. Representative Biggs just highlighted, frankly, the problem, Madam Speaker…”

“I thank Representative Biggs for yielding. Representative Biggs just highlighted, frankly, the problem, Madam Speaker, that we see in this, and it has been reiterated over and over again. This is not about a policy. This is about a person. It is about a person, the President, who the other side, and especially this committee that I have served as ranking member on and now serve as a member of, has consistently gone after for, now, almost 19 months. It has nothing to do with policies that at one point they did or did not believe in because, if this were true, we would have had a mass outcry in 2011 when President Obama used this authority to keep out folks because of human rights issues and other things. So, again, the problem here is it is great to couch this in political terms; it is great to couch this in great, deep policy issues; but, for 18 months, this is all that we have heard. I heard my chairman just a minute ago speak about how these policies that he disagrees with and doesn't like that are found under the law and that we are dealing with here today in this so-called NO BAN Act have tarnished us. Well, I will tell everybody what is tarnishing us in this country. It is acts like this and the constant back-and-forth. There are times I have wondered--and I know my friend from Arizona has as well. We have talked about this a little bit.…”