Jeff Van Drew: “I don't know why we would divert resources, time, energy, and people power to actually going forward with that.”

Mr. Speaker, I will say that, of course, money matters. In difficult budget times--and we are having a challenging and difficult budget--let me say that it is important that we do have that money there. Perhaps, as we move forward with not…

But — there’s a big but with that — if we’re not ready, then we need to, for a year or a year and a half, renew the subsidy.

These are not prepared notes, but I wanted to address a few of the things that the ranking member, Congressman Raskin, mentioned. It seems to me that from what I hear on the other side is everything but really dealing with and focusing on…

I am pleased to see that the Senate adopted the amendment that we wanted, which was to put into the bill the legislation that we had to detain and deport illegal aliens who assault cops. They have broken the law once, and now we are…