We have got to change that law. We have to, and treat the children who are coming from Central America just like we would treat the children coming from Mexico or Canada.

Regardless of how we feel about immigration reform in this country, how can we sit by and watch our country's National sovereignty, my country's National sovereignty violated over and over and over on our Southern Border?

If children can come across because CBP Agents are changing diapers or warming formula or doing other things other than securing the border, then I am sure that elements that want to do harm to this country can exploit our poor Southern…

If you enter the United States illegally of any age, you will be deported back to your home country.

Are we enforcing that? No, we seem to be looking the other way.

The President just said a couple of days ago that he has decided to go it alone on immigration reform, that he is frustrated with the way things have happened.

We have laws on the books. The 2006 Secure Fence Act.

I am frustrated that last night, we saw the IRS commissioner continue to obstruct Congress's investigation into the IRS's targeting of conservative groups by a crashed hard drive and lost e-mails.

Just throwing money at the problem alone--$2 billion, that is what the President has asked for--if we don't have a focused plan, or if we don't let the CBP officers or ICE do their jobs, then that money is wasted.

I would like to just reject categorically any claims made by Members of this committee that somehow America or American citizens are at fault for this crisis, this situation on the border.

If we don't create a deterrent to stop that from happening, this untold carnage is going to continue to happen.

The public perception that you can come here and stay has changed.

Let's say the buck stops here and let's just fix it and stop this carnage from happening.

So I apologize earlier if I came across as angry, talking about the Southern Border. But you know what? By golly, I am angry.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection currently possesses a very large fleet of unmanned aerial systems, or UAS's. Certainly, this technology can be a valuable asset. We want them to use it to our benefit on the border to enforce border…

I have an amendment at the desk, Mr. Chair. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 100, after line 17, insert the following new section: Sec. 541. None of the funds made available by this Act…

I would like to thank Chairman Wolf for offering me this opportunity. This amendment prohibits the funding for NASA's Advanced Food Technology project, the AFT. The AFT project is responsible for providing spaceflight crews with a food…

It is my understanding the chairman accepts the amendment. If that is the case, I yield to the chairman.

Increased natural gas exports could also put into action the Obama administration's stated foreign policy goal of a pivot to Asia.

On rollcall No. 237, I inadvertently voted in the affirmative when I intended to vote in the negative. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' Amendment No. 24 Offered by Mr. Blumenauer The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is…

I would like to thank Mr. Graves from Missouri for taking the lead on this amendment, and I would like to thank Chairman McKeon for including this amendment in this en bloc package. After 12 years of combat coming to a close and shifting…

But I am trying to focus on how State Department views Boko Haram and----

It seems to me in some ways that the State Department is living in some altered state of reality.

While the threat of an EMP event is real, I believe we need to use scientific, risk-based, and frankly, common-sense plans and exercises to give us a clearer picture of how to prevent and respond in the event of an EMP incident.

As Vice Chairman of this subcommittee, I am honored and privileged and pleased to chair this important hearing on the threat and consequences to our Nation's critical infrastructure from electromagnetic pulse, EMP.