I am glad that the Ranking Member mentioned SBInet and some of the boondoggles that DHS has been involved in, in the past.

Because we know in El Paso, and I think those of us who are interested in trade in this country understand that the more we get through our ports of entry, the more jobs we create here.

I wanted to follow up on some of the questions asked and comments made about return on investment.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to support the Cross-Border Trade Enhancement Act, a bipartisan bill introduced this week that will create jobs and facilitate trade at no cost to the Federal Government. Trade between the…

What are the protections to the taxpayer with these evolving goals and definitions?

How do you see your job in terms of managing that balance that you talked about, between civil rights... and balance that against these security concerns?

We will be able to measure progress against those goals. Measure the effectiveness of the dollar spent.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to explain my vote for the Continuing Resolution, H.R. 933. It is a deeply flawed bill that fails to adequately address the mindless cuts of the sequester; however, I believe it is an improvement over the current…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Mitchell Marcus, Jonathon Montanez, and the Franklin and Coronado High School basketball teams in El Paso, Texas. Few teams have a more contentious rivalry than these two schools, who compete to…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to give voice to the concerns I am hearing from my constituents and my community when it comes to the sequester. El Pasoans are worried about cuts to public education, canceled flights, delays in processing Social…

the obligations that we owe to these veterans.