Michael Guest

I applaud you for your budget request asking for additional agents.

I think clearly that we are seeing a humanitarian crisis along the southwest border.

I think that walls are beneficial. I think that they do a great job.

I do not see any circumstance where I can go back to the people that elected me and tell them that our border is secure.

If we do end up in any sort of armed conflict with China, particularly over in the Taiwanese Strait, our Navy is going to be that first line of defense.

Nuclear energy protects air quality. Nuclear energy is a zero-emission clean-energy source.

Do you agree that nuclear energy is both a clean and a green energy?

I want to talk specifically about, one, what I believe is an important component to our national energy production strategy that the administration is asking for decreased funding, and that is going to be in the field of nuclear energy.

There's compelling evidence that the Federal Government has incentivized, rather than criminalized, illegal immigration.

The most significant public safety and homeland security threat to Texas and the Nation is our unsecured international border with Texas.

During the 2-year activity of Operation Lone Star you report that there's been more than 350 million dosage units of fentanyl that have been seized.

I want to thank Governor Abbott, the men and women under your control, for the billions of dollars that the State of Texas has invested in fighting this crisis.

The Federal Government has failed to do its constitutional duty and secure the border.

Before I yield time to the gentleman from Ohio, I do want to point out that H. Res. 72 of the 117th Congress, which is the resolution that stripped Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments, contained no language whatsoever…

We see no evidence that the situation along the Southwest Border is getting better.

Do you still stand by your statement based on those statistical figures, that the border is closed, the border is secure, and that we have not lost operational control?

Can you talk just a little about the importance of having individuals make sure that they are registered at some period of time before the election?

Our Constitution, as you are well aware, gives individual States the rights to conduct their own elections.

Secretary Mayorkas has been here to Congress before, he sat in the very seat where you sit today, and he has testified that the border is closed, that the border is secure, and that we have operational control of the border.

In April, CBP reported 234,088 immigrants encountered along our border, the largest number ever recorded.

They all tell me the same thing without exception is they feel like that this administration has abandoned them.

The border is not secure, the border is wide open. Under your leadership this problem has only gotten worse.

Mr. Secretary, you are wrong. You are not being truthful with this committee and you are not being truthful with the American public.

You have repeatedly lied. You lied to Congress and you have lied to the American people when you said that the border is secure.

The situation at the border is the worst that they have ever seen it.