Lou Barletta

We are either going to be a country that respects our rule of law, or we are not.

When I saw our population grow by 50 percent but our tax revenue stay the same, realizing we had an illegal immigration problem, the quality of services suffered.

If it is not our lack of enforcing immigration laws, why don't they stop somewhere in Mexico?

It is irresponsible to talk about what we will do before we can stop the flow into the country.

I do believe that DACA and our failure of enforcing our immigration laws are the cause of this.

Why weren't we prepared, if we expected 65,000?

Why come all the way to the United States? Why put these children a thousand miles and risk their lives?

Any Member of Congress that starts talking about a pathway to amnesty--and that is what it is--lays out the welcome mat for people around the world that want to come into the United States illegally while our borders are not secured.

We should not be playing politics with the security of the American people.

Terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country.

An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure.

If anyone has experienced as you all have, the sorrow and devastation after a flood, I think at that point in time we would do anything within our power to prevent it from happening.

The gentleman from Maryland may be interested to know that, in our markup of this resolution, two of our committee members mentioned that they were proud soap box derby champions--Mr. Nolan of Minnesota and Mr. Williams of Texas. They also…

H. Con. Res. 88 authorizes the use of the Capitol Grounds for the annual Greater Washington Soap Box Derby in June. I want to thank the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer) for introducing this resolution. He has been a longtime supporter…

We are giving the American people this false sense of security that somehow if we bring people out of the shadows everything is fine and dandy.

That is a deal-breaker for me. I can't go any further with this discussion until they can satisfy me that we are going to do those proper background checks.

I disagree that the immigration reform that is being discussed here in Congress will have significant effect on the war on drugs.

How do we justify asking the local taxpayer to pay for a problem that was caused by the Federal Government?

How can you justify passing this onto the local taxpayers?

Now if the President gets his way, the local taxpayers will foot the entire bill.

America's infrastructure needs to be fixed, and fixed in a hurry, our roads, bridges.

The only thing he ever planted in America was a bomb.

I thank the gentlewoman from South Dakota. Mr. Speaker, I had sincerely hoped that we wouldn't have to be here this evening to take up the valuable time of this body, but the flaws in the Affordable Care Act and the deafening silence from…

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania. I yield to the gentlewoman from South Dakota (Mrs. Noem).

I thank the gentleman from West Virginia. I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Thompson).