Beto O'Rourke

This is where I want to ask my question finally, is on access to mental healthcare.

We need a full-service veterans' hospital in El Paso.

I think the initiatives you have undertaken to bring greater transparency to the organization are welcome...

I want your assurance that as you add additional CBP Officers to these ports, those cities like El Paso... are not penalized.

I would like to start out by thanking you and commending you for your responsiveness to me and to our office in the many requests that we have put before you.

I am very honored to be here with my colleagues from California and from Maryland. I am especially honored that my colleague from Maryland would invite me to say a few words today. He has been, truly, one of the real bright spots for me in…

We heard from the GAO yesterday that they have serious concerns about the way that CBP is proceeding...

We would love your help with that and look forward to working with you there.

What are you going to do in addition to the additional $309 million that we are requesting in the fiscal year 2015 budget for mental healthcare to surge providers' access, care, and resources to these desperately under-served areas where…

In learning from SBInet and looking forward to what we are doing here with the Arizona Border Surveillance Technology Plan, one of the pieces that was missing before I think were performance metrics that we would be able to look at and…

Five hundred million dollars to $700 million for deployment and what is O&M cost over 10 years?

I want to know to answer my colleague from South Carolina's question, in 2 years, in 5 years, in 10 years, when we are looking back at the $600 million plus that we have spent, how do we know that it was a success?

It is a great honor to join my colleague from the State of Texas in this Special Order hour today to recognize our history in this country when it comes to achieving civil rights and perseverance in the face of adversity and some of our…

I also join him in urging you to support Mr. Chaffetz's bill to make sure that we have some fairness and predictability when it comes to pay for the members of the Border Patrol.

We have doubled the size of the Border Patrol in the last 10 years.

I will do my part as a Member of Congress, to make sure that we have those resources there.

El Paso, Texas, the city I have the good fortune to live in and represent, is the safest city in America today, 4 years in a row actually, bordering on Ciudad Juarez.

I appreciate the fact that you are going to release the CBP's Use of Force Policy.

We need greater oversight and accountability given the missions and the opportunities there at the border.

We are spending $18 billion a year right now, unprecedented levels of spending.

I think the dominant perspective and view when it comes to our border, and certainly our border with Mexico, is to see that as a threat and a security situation to be locked down.

When we have the sequester, when we have Government shutdowns, we are not allocating resources wisely.

we have contractors get involved in defining how we are going to do things

How much will it cost us when we are done?

More of that could be spent on our human resources, on the talent that we have there, recruiting and retaining.