Beto O'Rourke

I find the decision that the CBO has made frustrating and inconvenient, especially for the constituents I represent.

And so we are urgently exploring options to build a full-service acute care facility in the El Paso region to serve those 80,000 plus veterans.

I want to thank my colleague from the Rio Grande Valley. Here he is meeting the anxiety, the paranoia, and the legislation based on emotion instead of facts with the cold, hard truth of our economic interdependence with Mexico. We ignore…

Thank you Representative Davis. I appreciate hearing, again, more facts, more rational arguments, from my colleague from California about the border. I place that in contrast to, again, the anxiety and the fear that is surrounding much of…

I thank my colleague from Arizona for talking about the moral dimension of this issue and for putting a human face on a problem and also on the opportunity, the other side of that problem, that being the opportunity we see along the…

The removal of the money for the HC-144s represents about one-third of the total reduction in funding that we see in this plan versus the 5-year plan from last year.

It is a place that is transforming lives in our community, giving people who otherwise would not have an opportunity, the chance to succeed.

I appreciate your belief that this makes us more secure. The concept is a good one. But we need facts if we are to make informed decisions going forward.

If we slow down already long wait times even further, with a system that doesn't work or with a system whose effect on throughput we cannot ascertain, that to me is troubling, as well.

I think it is important for us to move forward with objective, verifiable data.

Was it worth $500 million? Is it worth an additional $3.2 billion, what you have seen so far?

But without any data, without you being able to give me hard numbers, how could I support authorizing another dime for this program?

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…

I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. I rise today in support of the McGovern-Smith-Lee-Jones-Garamendi amendment to responsibly end the war in Afghanistan. I have the distinct honor of representing Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas…

How do we communicate with people who are crossing into the United States?

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.

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 of entry, I am…

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

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.

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 Elisa and Miguel…

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.

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.

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