On the recordOctober 10, 2017
I join with my colleague from Illinois and demand that the Children's Health Insurance Program that will help millions of children have healthcare be reauthorized now, and certainly it should be done before we leave for the work recess. I also want to hold up the headline of the Houston Chronicle that says: ``Trump Ramps Up Demands for New DACA Deal.'' Sometimes we think that these are just statements that don't impact people's lives. The name of the young lady on this front page is Karen, who watches her parents work 17 hours a day, trying to ensure that the children who came here through no fault of their own can be contributing Americans. We stood together yesterday with 122,000 in the State of Texas. We thought we had a reasonable deal to be able to work together to help these young people. But with the ridiculous demands that have been made by this administration--$15 billion border wall, cutting legal immigration, sending out the door unaccompanied children--it is absolutely ludicrous. Does anyone care about human life. Then we stood together with the chief of police, the sheriff, the constables, and Moms Demand Action and fought against ridiculous nonregulation of guns that can kill people, military guns. We need gun safety legislation, and we need to do it now. ____________________
