Political Quotes

“We are here because the President of the United States has requested an emergency supplemental appropriations of about $3.7 billion. The Senate has acted in the range of about $2.7 billion. The House now comes in at one-sixth of the request to deal with this crisis. It ignores the wildfires in the West, the challenges that relate to other parts of the bill that were presented by the administration, and it says we are acting responsibly. I rise in opposition to the bill. I understand what the majority is offering, and I think it has been stated pretty clearly. I believe, if we have children who are presented to us without adults--who have been the victims of trafficking, which is what the majority has said, they have been trafficked by cartels and paid criminal enterprises to bring them to our border; the majority says some of them have been sexually abused and mistreated in other ways--I don't believe that our response should be to close the door. {time} 1245 So as we think about our responsibilities as the United States of America, a Nation that had 12 million people without documents when the President was sworn into office--50,000 children, just like the 5-year- old girl that my colleague said he met and talked to--the idea that our moral responsibility is to say to her, ``You go back to where you came from,'' I don't believe that that is what we should be doing. So I reject this--not because of the numbers or the other things.…”