We are not holding anything hostage. We are upholding the Constitution, and we are funding the Department of Homeland Security.

It would have been better if the Department of Homeland Security would have had the courage to come here today and answer not just our questions but the questions the American people have.

Clean legislation is legislation that's consistent with the Federal judge's ruling last week.

22 times the President had said that he couldn't do what he did. Legal scholars on the left and right have said it is unconstitutional. A Federal judge has ruled it is unlawful.

We are not going to allow you to use American taxpayer dollars to carry out an action we think is unconstitutional.

So if anyone is holding anything hostage, it's the folks in the Senate, the Democrats in the Senate, who won't even talk about it.

to say we haven't funded DHS is just flatout wrong.

I believe it's unconstitutional. I don't know how we couldn't put the language in the bill that we did.

How can Congress fund something we all believe is unconstitutional and a Federal judge has said is unlawful?

It is another thing to hold the Constitution hostage, which is what I think the President has done.

The American taxpayer was never given a voice about this.