On the recordJuly 28, 2021
To comment on my Democrat colleague's comments that they are just trying to build America back better, nobody in the United States of America in their right mind believes that what is happening in this country--the disastrous economic policies, the spike in crime in the neighborhoods from sea to shining sea, the chaos that burns out of control at the border--believes that you are trying to make America better. I associate myself with the comments of Representative Roy from the Lone Star State. It is absurd for us to be mandating and restricting the American people when we have hundreds of thousands of people pouring into this country, and in the last 2 weeks we had a 900 percent increase in COVID-positive people illegally crossing our sovereign border into the United States. We can't take anybody seriously, not the President, and with all due respect, not our colleagues who think they are trying to make our country better, stronger, and safer. That is just absurd. It is ridiculous. I can hardly get through my comments about the appropriations on account of some of this rhetoric that is empty. It is absolutely hollow in the ears of those who hear it who live on the border and who are experiencing the devastating effects; not the least of which are the poor, vulnerable people who are coming over here and paying a high price by the cartels who we, because of the policies of this administration, are enriching and empowering every day.…
