It seems to me, you know, this being a report on waste, fraud, and abuse, and the potential thereof, that every dollar we spend on interest is wasted.

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman for taking this moment to speak on this. I cannot imagine a more important topic for us right now in this Nation. Mr. Speaker, we are unique in history in that our Nation rests on the understanding…

Sure. You know my family, you know my wife. I have had those comments put on me that I somehow don't like Brown people and that I am somehow racist. They fail sometimes to look at my family photo. My wife is an immigrant. I didn't marry…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate a pillar of the Victoria, Texas, community, Mrs. Verlinn Sandra Avery, who passed away on January 30, 2021. Resilient and devoted to caring for others, Mrs. Avery demonstrated her passion for serving…

Let us help our border agents patrol it and let us stop the human trafficking crisis at the border, the drug trafficking, and so, you know, that would, obviously, stop at least with the topic of the day with child separation at the border…

They all say they need the fence.

We know there is a caravan coming up from Honduras right now and that we will see more issues with children being exploited by the cartels.

The new 30-foot fence, it saves taxpayers money because one border agent can patrol two linear miles of fence.

We, in Texas, experience this maybe in a way that much of the Nation doesn't.

The real broader picture and more correct picture is that this is a cartel-driven mechanism.

We ought to be calling in Biden administration officials to find out what they are going to do here on the border.