Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, those individuals need processes and they need funding. We won't even give them war funding. As a member of the Homeland Security Committee, I can tell you that the issue is that we are not bringing groups together who are fleeing persecution, which is what we are seeing in the individuals coming to the country now. They are fleeing persecution, and we want to reject-- we want to reject the funding. When I was on the Homeland Security Committee, we did not do that. We provided for the NGOs. It is shameful for us to think that we can live in this country and reject the NGOs, the nongovernmental entities, who are helping those who are in need. That is how we did our work. When we did our work, we would be able to solve the problems. Those problems would be helping NGOs. Those problems would be making sure that we gave dollars to the agencies like Catholic Charities. Can anyone believe that we don't give money to Catholic Charities anymore? The call that we have today, Mr. Speaker, and to my good friend, the whip of the House, working with our whip, the Honorable Katherine Clark---- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.”