On the recordJune 27, 2019
For the love of God and this country, I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table H.R. 3401, with the Senate amendment thereto, and concur in the Senate amendment. This bipartisan bill passed the Senate with 84 votes and could be sent to the President's desk for his signature today, so help us, God. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Massachusetts has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Time will be deducted from the gentleman from Oklahoma. {time} 1215 Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I include in the Record two articles, one from The New York Times entitled: `` `There is a Stench': Soiled Clothes and No Baths for Migrant Children at a Texas Center''; the other, `` `The Taliban Gave Me Toothpaste': Former Captives Contrast U.S. Treatment of Child Migrants.'' [From the New York Times, June 21, 2019] `There Is a Stench': Soiled Clothes and No Baths for Migrant Chidren at a Texas Center (By Caitlin Dickerson) A chaotic scene of sickness and filth is unfolding in an overcrowded border station in Clint, Tex., where hundreds of young people who have recently crossed the border are being held, according to lawyers who visited the facility this week. Some of the children have been there for nearly a month. Children as young as 7 and 8, many of them wearing clothes caked with snot and tears, are caring for infants they've just met, the lawyers said.…
