Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Texas, and we are joining the Office of Congresswoman Giffords in offering this amendment. I had the opportunity last week to travel to Congresswoman Giffords' district and the 114-mile border that she has along the Mexican border and her district. And when you see, as my colleague from Texas knows, these ranchers and the territory that they have to cover--and we have a national community campaign now: ``If you see something, saying something.'' Well, these are areas where you don't have the communications. Even if you see something, there's no one to tell. There's no way to get that message out. So what the gentleman from Texas is trying to do with this amendment is trying to make sure that the equipment is there so that these ranchers and community citizens, if they see somebody coming across the border, if they see something that is alarming to them, they're able to communicate it. Right now that technology does not exist. They are literally in the dark as far as communicating it. There is a public safety aspect to this amendment. And there is a Border Patrol aspect-- the ability of our law enforcement personnel to communicate with each other and communicate with the local citizens who, in some cases, are out miles and miles away from any form of mobile communications. So I strongly support this amendment.…”