Beto O'Rourke

I am pleased to be introducing the Foster Children Opportunity Act today. This legislation will ensure that abused and neglected immigrant children have an opportunity to succeed in our country. It is supported by over 175 child welfare…

Today I joined Jim Bridenstine in filing a bipartisan constitutional amendment that would allow Congress to decide whether and how to limit the terms of its Members. Our measure would not prescribe the number of terms a Member would serve…

I also want to tell you that I appreciate your comments about the difficulty in balancing greater scrutiny with the community policing that you must do in order to be successful.

I want to make sure, as someone who represents one of the largest immigrant communities in the United States, that that is not what we do going forward.

To echo the words of former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta when he visited the installation, Fort Bliss is the premier post in America.

Denying our brave men and women access to education programs will negatively impact their ability to carry out their missions while in service.

The El Paso region and the entire Fort Bliss community continue to go above and beyond in their steadfast support of our soldiers and their families.

I urge this committee to use the National Defense Authorization Act to guarantee that this remains true.

I also urge the committee to continue support for the Military Tuition Assistance Program in fiscal year 2014.

I urge this committee to continue to support this project so that our soldiers, including our wounded warriors returning home, receive the world-class care that they deserve.

When these projects go over these many months or these many dollars, what does it do to the projects behind them?

I want to follow up on something that Congresswoman Kuster brought up and I tried to address in my earlier questions.

if you are spending $366 million more than you originally budgeted, where is that money coming from if not from projects that would have been funded further down the list?

And are the criteria you use to determine ranking within that SCIP process, are those published along with--

Please identify the factors that go into determining the Strategic Capital Investment Planning (SCIP) priority for a facility that is co-located with either a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) facility or a private or public medical center.

Mr. Kelley offered some suggestions to address some of the findings made by Ms. St. James.

we desperately, in my opinion, need a full service VA hospital in El Paso

What can we do to improve that process, whether it is through a co-location, I talked about DoD, or through a university system, whether it is providing land and leasing opportunities, give us some guidance in El Paso on how we can partner…

At the hearing, we discussed my concerns about CBP staffing levels.

if we are able to pass immigration reform, that, in itself, will help make the border more secure.

Adding CBP officers is necessary to enhance security, facilitate legitimate trade and travel, and reduce wait times at our ports of entry.

communities like El Paso, that I represent, are willing to commit resources, millions of dollars from local tax payers

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank the members of the panel and the men and women who work in the agencies that you represent for the work that all of you do, work that is critical in ensuring that El Paso remains the country's…

We would not be the city we are but for the hard work that the men and women of the Border Patrol perform each and every day, and that is part of the reason we are the safest city in the United States 3 years running.

I want to thank Mr. Judd and Congressman Barber for organizing the briefing held yesterday to give Members of Congress and their staffs, their teams a better understanding of what you do, the agents that you represent, what their…