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On the recordFebruary 9, 2015
last Wednesday, President Obama made a statement that is troubling to me. I think those of us who believe in Executive leadership and honest leadership, where leaders talk directly to the people about the serious problems we face, have to be troubled by this trend with this administration. Sometimes it makes me fear for the future of the Republic. He accused Republicans of ``defunding the very operations that are involved in making sure we've got strong border security.'' He said Republicans are blocking funding of that. Nothing could be further from the truth. The House of Representatives--the Republican House--has passed a bill with $40 billion, funding fully, as basically the President requested, all the agencies in the Department of Homeland Security. It has one little catch to it; it bars the President from taking money from the Department of Homeland Security that is supposed to be used to enforce the law and using that to grant amnesty and to undermine the law. The House bill is not in any way undermining the security of the United States of America, the ability for Homeland Security to protect us from terrorists.…
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Pete Sessions
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