On the recordJune 12, 2019
We are going to need a lot of volunteers, actually, in a month because the majority, time and time and time again, has voted against taking care of these children when money runs out this month. That is a fact. Yes, we will need volunteers. We need volunteers to do more than the mental health, which is very important. When you talk about toxic stress, wait until a child comes to the border and we can't provide medical services. And we can't provide services because the majority in the House refuses to bring a supplemental appropriation to the floor. Now, the gentlewoman commented on someone--I don't know, maybe it was me--voting against a bill that has $1.3 billion, that spends tens of billions of dollars above the statutory Budget Control Act numbers, and yet the majority voted in committee this week to provide billions of dollars of funds to take care of children at the border. They leave that inconvenient fact out. Madam Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry).
