Hal Rogers

You are planning your work, but I don't see nobody working the plan.

only a pathetic 6.4 percent of the more than $1 billion provided for these programs--over the last 3 fiscal years, only 6.4 percent has been spent.

this is significant.

Our best course of action is not to allow drugs from South America to get to Central America or Mexico.

Are you telling me that you are checking every one of those vehicles to be sure it is not transporting guns or cash south into Mexico?

Well, last week, U.S. authorities at Arizona's six ports of entry along the border said that you are ill-equipped to screen vehicles and trains crossing into Mexico for smuggled weapons and cash.

I don't know why we need the Customs and Border Protection organization or ICE or any of the others, even the Department if we are going to say that it is okay to use false documents, lying to obtain a job and then, on top of that, being…

If the Administration would take just a portion of that $95 million that they are requesting for further work on the border, just a small slice of that money and devote it to a container security device, we could save most of the rest of…

Mr. Chairman, that is the most brilliant opening statement I have ever heard.

In Kentucky during the ice storm--and by the way, some people are still without electricity, and that has been almost 6 weeks ago--28 people died, some of them because of lack of communications, because they did not have interoperable…

It is a combined partnership, and it is very, very effective.

I am told that 90 percent or so of the heroin entering this country and cocaine and others, that 90 percent of that coming into the country comes across the Mexican border.

How many containers come to the U.S. from Mexico a year or a month or whatever?

This is a matter of getting that money out there and getting interoperable communications in business. And don't tell me it is too complicated.

Mr. Speaker, throughout our country's storied history, we've witnessed some truly extraordinary efforts from the floor of this hallowed Chamber to address our country's most dire needs. We've stood united, setting geographic and party…

on the so-called stimulus bill, instead of engaging in constructive solutions to address the economic crisis gripping the Nation, the majority chooses to take advantage of it, using fear tactics to try and shame us into supporting an over…

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That's objection number one. We did not have a chance to have a say-so on this bill. The American people have been shut out of a discussion of what's in this bill, until today. Number two, this bill is loaded down with matters that are not…

Mr. Chairman, if we can't control who crosses our Nation's border, all other possible immigration initiatives will fail. Now, the gentleman's amendment prevents the undue delay of urgently needed border security. It still maintains the…

Like the chairman, I am sympathetic with the gentleman's concern about funding for REAL ID. It is a mandate that we put on the States that we need to match money for. And we've done that. As the chairman indicated, there's $50 million in…

I join the chairman in opposing the amendment, reluctantly, because the gentleman from New Mexico makes a compelling argument for better border security. Coming from his State, I can fully understand that. But as the chairman has said, we…

I have a question: Shouldn't all items in an appropriations bill, whether it be for an agency or for directed spending by a Member of Congress, should that not be voted on by the entire body, and shouldn't we have an opportunity to inspect…

I wanted to compliment the gentlewoman for being an aggressive leader on this subject. She is very knowledgeable on the subject and has done a great deal of work in backgrounding on the amendment she has brought forward. She is doing a…

If 287(g) would provide the training and the authority for the local law enforcement to do just as the gentleman has said, think of the law enforcement power that can be brought to bear on the severe problem the country faces of getting…