David Price: “I rise as the designee of Chairwoman Nita Lowey, and I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is…”

Immigration reform would not solve all of our problems at the border, but without reform we are knowingly accepting a status quo that has become increasingly untenable.

I urge my colleagues to sit up and take notice of this. This is quite an amendment--quite a radical amendment. It indiscriminately would cut a total of 36 percent from programs in Transportation and Housing without any regard for the…

Believe me, this is long overdue. This was one of the more visionary aspects of the Obama recovery plan--$8 billion, in that instance, applied to passenger rail development.

The transportation side of the budget, also looks good.