Political Quotes

“I will yield for a question when I finish my remarks, just as he was nice enough to yield to me a few days ago. First, without a bipartisan full-year bill, the Secret Service cannot move forward with the critical reforms recommended by an independent panel of experts made after the White House fence-jumping incident. Second, we can't upgrade the biometric identification system that prevents terrorists from coming into the country. Republicans and Democrats negotiated an additional $25 million for DHS to upgrade the system that allows them to stop terrorists from coming through an airport or on a cargo ship and into the United States. A CR does not provide that funding. Third, Secretary Johnson has said the Department will be constrained by a CR from improving security along our southwest border and maintaining the resources we added to deal with last summer's border crisis. Some say, Why does a CR constrain all of this? Because it is just ratifying last year's funding, and when new situations have emerged--new terrorist threats, new trouble on the border--we can't change the budget. It makes no sense. No company would simply pass last year's budget when they are experiencing new challenges; neither should our government. In short, a CR just doesn't work. It is not how we should be funding the Department of Homeland Security.…”