the people who are using our ports of entry coming into our community, the community I represent in El Paso, Texas, feel that same way.

somewhere close to 99 percent of those who are crossing our ports of entry into the United States are crossing for legitimate purposes, have the appropriate documentation, and, again, are huge net contributors to our economy and to our…

Mr. Chairman, I want to thank the chair and the ranking member of this subcommittee for their work on this bill. It's certainly one that I'm very happy to support. Given the importance of trade at both our northern and southern land ports…

Mr. Speaker, in 1962, President Kennedy established Peace Officers Memorial Day to honor the sacrifices made by officers who died in the line of duty. Last week, during this year's Peace Officers Memorial Day, I was privileged to meet…

We also have a bill that we have filed, The Faster Filing Act, that will require the VA to publish the resolution times for different methods of filing a claim.

I would also like to thank the chair of the subcommittee and the ranking member for sponsoring this legislation and the chairman and ranking member of the full committee for bringing it forward. I'm pleased to be a cosponsor of the…

I feel that you and General Shinseki, Secretary Shinseki have heard that and are responding to it and I really appreciate it.

I really appreciate your efforts and I commend the seriousness and tenacity with which you are pursuing these very ambitious goals.

It seems like there was some fundamental breakdown in the week following Boston.

We have got to get it right. We have got to address this, and we have got to address it fairly rapidly to get it right to secure this country.

To illustrate the problem a different way, in El Paso, the community I represent, the University of Texas at El Paso treats its students from Ciudad Juarez as though they are in-State tuition students.