Pete Sessions: “It is my sincere hope at today's hearing, that we can learn positive lessons so that other cities and communities can be…”

I thank the chairwoman for the time, and I appreciate the gentleman from California standing in support of this bill, H.R. 2622. In fact, this was a bipartisan agreement that we came to. The gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Gottheimer), and…

I cannot agree with is the way we have a political philosophy by the Democratic Party that we are going to open up completely our borders without regard for national security, without regard for the law, without regard for common sense…

That is why we respect the ability of local people to make local decisions and to come up with an answer.

My baseball coach, Roger Williams, Chair of the House Small Business Committee, headed up yesterday at the Rules Committee.