John Culberson: “I understand the gentleman is going to withdraw the amendment, and I continue to reserve the balance of my time.”

Ninety-six percent of them never show up for their hearing. They are just gone. They enter the United States illegally.

No one is going to do a better job than the Governor. That is the genius of what Mr. Jefferson and the Founders left us.

I can tell you, as a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, I am going to use every financial tool at my disposal to light a fire under every bureaucracy that I can find that is sitting on this money.

I encourage you to just be bold and assertive and to get to yes.