Josh Brecheen

Is anybody above the law?

Now I supported H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act. Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority leader from New York, Representative of New York, has done zero, ungatz, on the border, nothing on immigration. It's been an abject failure.

We need a merit-based system, because we do have shortages of employment among doctors, nurses, home health aides, ag workers, hospitality workers. We need immigrants, but there has to be a process. This is not working.

Are illegal immigrants above the law?

The Dignity Act I was an original cosponsor of. It would deal with the border, it would deal with the undocumented, and it would reform our legal immigration system.

Are we a Nation of laws?

I think to pretend or to look at this and not just see the common-sense reality is, as New York City mayor said, you know, our compassion as a Nation is limitless but our resources are not.

One hundred percent of our discretionary spending right now is borrowed money.

So, how do we pay for $3 billion worth of icebreakers when it is borrowed money from our kids and our grandkids?

Before we debate this amendment, I want to start with some important facts. A lot of us, in our States, including Oklahoma, are facing a foster care home shortage. According to one report, between 2020 and 2021 to 2022, the number of…

Under the Trump administration, we saw a 45-year low of illegal aliens coming to the border in 2019.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. ___. None of the funds made…

Lawlessness is contagious. Lawlessness of an open border encourages lawlessness of the fentanyl drug trade.

Illegal aliens definitely know the Southern Border is open. The policies are what is causing millions to come to the border.

Custom and Border Protection has reported over 6.5 million alien encounters at our Southern Border under this administration.

It remains and has been lawlessness to cross that border, Southern Border, would undermine the rule of law.

There is a passage in the Bible that I find interesting. I think it is appropriate.

Criminal convictions by the Department of Justice against human trafficking is also down 48 percent since 2019.

Our decaying national security is on full display. We know the Southern Border is open.

It is our job as Members of Congress to address what we can, and what we can do is change those incentives that are leveraging the Southern Border.

It should be no surprise that policies that encourage the explosive number of illegal immigrants coming across our Southern Border are also a correlation tied into human smuggling increases, human sex trafficking increases.

Let me reiterate that, this last year, GAO said 17 of the 24 agencies that they surveyed used only 25 percent of their headquarters office space. That means 75 percent of office space in the headquarters of the largest agencies is vacant…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 99, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $12,735,000)''. Page 102, line 5, after the…

This amendment is going to return funding for the General Services Administration, GSA, real property activities of the Federal buildings fund back to fiscal year 2019 levels. It is a modest cut of $12.7 million. For context, this…

My amendment would reduce spending by bringing the Department of Housing and Urban Development's funding for the fair housing activities back to the fiscal year 2019 levels, which would be a cut of $19.7 million. Cutting funding back to…