Sheila Jackson Lee: “I thank the gentlewoman very much, and I thank her for her commonsense explanation. Might I say, as a member of the…”

“I thank the gentlewoman very much, and I thank her for her commonsense explanation. Might I say, as a member of the authorizing Committee on Homeland Security, I believe, as we have just heard, that the Senate has passed a clean Department of Homeland Security funding bill that came out of these appropriators who did excellent work. In the name of the security of this Nation, I ask the Speaker to bring this bill to the floor of the House right now. I do so with headlines like: ``Three Denver girls played hooky from school and tried to join ISIS.'' I do it in the name of the headlines of three arrested in Brooklyn who had intentions to do the Commander in Chief harm and many others harm. I do it also in recognition as one of the Members who was there, if you will, in the aftermath of 9/11, who watched the forging of the Department of Homeland Security that put forward Border Patrol agents and TSO agents and ICE agents working with the FBI. All of those individuals will not be funded. Let me say to the hardworking men and women of the Department of Homeland Security: We will not leave you abandoned, but we will vote for a full funding of the Department of Homeland Security. We ask the Republicans why they refuse to address the national security of this Nation, putting political security over national security.”