Henry Cuellar

The days of trust-me science are over.

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Neal) and his staff for helping to put this together. I appreciate it. I also want to thank the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Boustany) and his staff for putting this bill on a very fast-moving…

I want to say, first of all, that I rise in support of H.R. 5591, which designates the facility of the United States Postal Service in Zapata as the Zapata Veterans Post Office. I would like to thank Chairman Chaffetz and Ranking Member…

This July marks the 100-year anniversary of the Farm Credit System, and I rise today to commend the cooperative owners and employees for their continuing service and support in meeting the financial needs of rural communities and…

I do support Mr. Poe's amendment. With all due respect to my good friend, we do want to secure the border. We just want to do it in the right way. While some people are talking about securing the border with a wall-- a 14th century…

I am not recorded on any votes as I was delayed in traveling back to Washington, DC. If I had been present, I would have voted: ``Yea,'' on rollcall 164, passage of H.R. 4820--Combating Terrorist Recruitment Act of 2016. ``Yea,'' on…

We have got to have some sort of performance measures on them.

I am a big believer--again, I am on the border. I am one of those Democrats who believes in law and order and the border even though immigration reform is extremely important to me.

I am one of those Democrats that I believe in immigration reform, but I still want to see law and order at the border.

I hope that hasn't gone up because, as Chairman Carter says, you know, we gotta work with a tight budget.

At the same time, we think the wall is a 14th century solution to a 21st century problem that we have.

Will you keep certainly Chairman Carter, and the members of the committee, the ranking member also, and myself what the cost is?

We believe if somebody is put in detention they ought to be treated fairly, but that we should have detention, have some sort of deterrent.

I think people know my policies. You know, I would like to see a moderate approach.

I would ask you to have your folks come down to the border.

I would echo Chairman Rogers that you all put a little bit more resources on that.

I encourage you to do as much as you can under our tight budget that we have.

The more we can do to work with the Republic of Mexico... will be good.

I would rather play defense on their 20-yard line instead of our 1-yard line.

People are trying to escape the drug cartels and the violence, and some of the most violent places in the world are in Central America.

I want to make sure that if we get in a plane that we are secure.

I think Roberta Jacobson should be the ambassador and it is unfair that she has been delayed for something that has nothing to do with Mexico.

The more we extend our security out, instead of playing defense on the 1-yard line, but extend it to the 20-yard line, the better it is.

We support immigration reform. But we do want to have order and not have chaos at the border.

I added some language to have transparency to make sure that whoever is there is treated with respect and dignity.