Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, I yield 6 minutes to the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), the distinguished ranking member of the Appropriations Committee. Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition to the Republican majority's Homeland Security appropriations bill. First, I wish to thank the subcommittee staff in the majority and minority for their efforts, especially Bob Joachim and Shannon McCully. I also thank the ranking member for yielding time. This Homeland Security bill fails to secure the border and instead stokes chaos and disorder, wasting hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars along the way. The House majority has rejected every serious legislative effort to address and lessen the crisis at the border. They rejected one of the toughest bipartisan border bills in history that had a viable path to passage, pronouncing it dead without any debate. When the President asked for additional resources to secure the border, my colleagues across the aisle ignored that as well, even after they told us that we had to ``take care of our border first'' before we could provide any funding to Ukraine and our other allies. Madam Chair, we provided the necessary funding to our allies, for which I am very grateful, but we failed our responsibilities to give Border Patrol agents and other law enforcement the resources needed to manage the crisis at the border and to stop our communities from being overwhelmed by a disorderly and outdated immigration system.…”