Timothy Roemer: “Mr. Chairman, one of the primary purposes of the bill we are discussing today is to provide affordable housing for…”

I would just engage the majority leader a little bit further on this particular bill in saying that the committee reported this unanimously out of the committee a month and a half ago in a bipartisan fashion after we worked very hard on…

This isn't just a matter of border security--it's a matter of National security.

I am confident that as our partnerships continue to grow in the form of information sharing, manpower, and monetary support, more lives will be saved.

I want to emphasize that we can quantify results in a number of ways, but there is one metric we can't account for, and that is the number of lives that have been saved.