Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania will be postponed. Amendment No. 7 Offered by Mr. LaLota The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 7 printed in part B of House Report 118-511. Mr. LaLOTA. Mr. Chairman, I rise as the designee of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Gimenez), and 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 4, line 23, insert ``, and the nationality of each such alien'' before the semicolon. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1127, the gentleman from New York (Mr. LaLota) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New York. Mr. LaLOTA. Mr. Chair, the cartels have more control over the U.S.- Mexico border in Cochise County than either the governments of Mexico or the United States. That is what law enforcement officers from the Tucson sector of America's southern border told me on my fourth trip to the southern border recently: The cartels have more control over our border than we do. What are the cartels doing with that control? To America's detriment, they are smuggling people and drugs across it every day. I suppose we could blame the cartels because they are vicious and ruthless, but we should look closer to home for the blame.…”