Scripture tells us ``Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.'' Our peacemakers make up the thin blue line that protects our communities from crime, and they dedicate their lives to defending innocent citizens…

Make no mistake: Our border is broken. This administration, for over 2 years, has been unwilling or unable to secure our southern border. Statistics show that in FY21, President Biden set a record with 1.9 million encounters. In FY22, he…

March marks the 12th straight month that we have had more than 200,000 encounters

we know that earlier this week DHS released its national encounters by month.

I think that your agency is not enforcing the law, Mr. Mayorkas, and I think that you can do a better job.

I thought was very truthful, very forthcoming, when he said that he could not testify before this committee that the border was secure.

Do you believe that all 9 sectors are secure?

I think the agents that work along the southwest border are underpaid.

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.

So, when title 42 goes down, we will immediately start doing enhanced expedited removal across the southwest border, but it is going to take some time for that consequence to take effect in my opinion.

Chief Ortiz in March testified... that five of the nine sectors along the southwest border, in his opinion, were not secure.

It appears to me that Customs and Border Patrol... is asking for a 7.5 percent decrease from the funds that were received last Congress.

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.

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

In many places across our great Nation, parents are being denied, being denied a voice in discussions around what their children are being taught in schools. As Republicans, in our Commitment to America, we made a promise, a promise to…

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.