Political Quotes

“I want to clarify what this amendment does. It does really two things. One is it directs the $1 billion already in the bill to go to the 854 miles of the most critical areas of the border that were identified in the Secure Fence Act. The first thing is put the resources where they are the most critical, where Congress has, by more than a 2-to-1 margin in the House, said let's do this. And the Senate has said by a more than 4-to-1 margin, 80-19, let's build this 854 miles. The second thing that the bill does is that it confines the billion dollars to fence and access roads. You have to have roads to build it, and you have to have roads to maintain it. What the administration has demonstrated is out of the $1.187 billion that we appropriated last year, they spent perhaps $30 million on real fence, the 13.01 miles that Mr. Royce addressed. The balance of that is on virtual technology. Now we need some virtual technology; but overall, this will provide in the end $2.2 billion. And of that, $1 billion is set aside for physical structures, fence and roads.”