Henry Cuellar

I'm a big supporter of what I call NAFTA 2.0.

If you want to talk about economic impact to our agriculture folks, that would have an extremely negative impact.

Mr. Chairman, thank you, And to the ranking member also.

I certainly thank Chairwoman Lowey for her leadership and the staff on both the Republican side and the Democratic side for working so hard. Mr. Speaker, I thank Speaker Pelosi, Chairwoman Roybal-Allard, Ranking Member Kay Granger, and, of…

I just feel that the taxpayers are being taken advantage of.

I do have a problem when, you know, 46 out of 47 parts that they looked at had excessive profits.

I get concerned that in places like Mexico and Chile and other countries, when they poll, China and other countries are doing better than we are for various reasons.

The carrizo cane elimination in the river routes to provide access would be, in my opinion, ... tremendous.

Putting concertina wire on some of our international bridges... is a little insulting to us.

I think that would provide some efficiencies.

I guess my question is, if this report is correct, how can the Air Force not account for $2.1 billion worth of parts and materials?

I think it would help the overall cost.

I will work with you.

I think we are missing something here.

As the Texas Secretary of State when I was there, we didn't have that type of situation. It was just they take one case, they take a politiquera, they take a mailman, and they make it sound like everybody has committed voter fraud here.

The voter ID--things don't just happen in Texas by accident. I mean, there is a plan to do redistricting, voter ID, everything else.

The last time we had a redistricting, Texas grew by 4.3 million individuals. 65 percent were Hispanics.

If there's anything that's going to cost the State of Texas not only Members of Congress or other areas, it's going to be the billions of dollars that the State of Texas and other states are going to lose.

It should be a no-brainer that we shouldn't be doing that, but unfortunately, sometimes people will put politics in front of what's right for the community.

Thank you so much for having this hearing--this field hearing here in South Texas.

Look, without due respect to the President, we're just focusing on what we can do as appropriators Senate, House, Democrats, Republicans, and I feel optimistic that if there is no outside interference by the White House, we can work this…

I live on the border, and we have to understand that, every day, there is about $1.3 billion of trade between the U.S. and Mexico. That is a lot of jobs that are being created on this side. When you look at the Mexicans who come over and…

The most dangerous thing that I do is leave the border to come to Washington, D.C. I am not talking about the politics. I am talking about, it is more violent here. So what should we do? Let's open up the government. Let's sit down…

I want to thank Chairwoman Roybal-Allard for her leadership on the Homeland Security Subcommittee, and for her ideas on how we secure the border. I also want to thank the ranking member, my friend from Tennessee; the full committee ranking…

I thank the ranking member, Mr. Engel, for yielding to me and also for his leadership in helping to bring this bill to the floor. I thank him and his staff for the wonderful work that they have done. I also thank Chairman Royce and his…