On the recordSeptember 26, 2023
Again, my colleagues don't want to focus on the issues the American people care about, and they certainly don't want to talk about the issues that are, frankly, pretty embarrassing to the track record of my Democratic colleagues. As I said, they don't want to talk about Hunter Biden. They don't want to talk about the Department of Justice and how it has been weaponized against the American people. They don't want to talk about a Strategic Petroleum Reserve that has been decimated and the high cost of gasoline and electricity. They don't want to talk about inflation. They don't want to talk about housing prices. They don't want to talk about a Department of Defense that is more focused on social engineering than carrying out the mission that it is given. They don't want to talk about crime. They don't want to talk about woke policies in which men are swimming against women in swimming meets. They don't want to talk about the border. We are going to talk about the border, but I assure you, they do not want to talk about the border. They talk about consequences. Last Thursday, Texas authorities recovered the bodies of two migrants, including a 3-year-old boy who tried crossing the Rio Grande. Then 2 weeks ago, a 10-year-old migrant boy drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande. Last year, 853 migrants died crossing the southern border; 53 in a tractor-trailer in the city of San Antonio, which I represent.…
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