Charles A. Jenkins

This is a battle that we are now losing. And the two tools that we have to turn the tide and win the battle are vaccinations and mask.

This is not about politics, it’s about public health. The enemy is not Governor Abbott or Governor DeSantis. The enemy is the virus.

This was completely predictable. We had a report from the feds and a report from the state legislature that told the governor he needed to weatherize the generation and we needed to replace our antiquated natural gas pipeline system.

I have seen people who couldn't pay their smugglers and got stabbed in the face 22 times.

It is dehumanizing to continue to come here and talk about it and not put a bill before this committee.

If you don't believe it, just look at the results. Don't look at the rhetoric. Look at the results, not the rhetoric.

It is a sad state of affairs in our country that we are at this place.

Thank God we have a President willing to take on this crisis.

I think Mr. Homan said it best. Our country is upside down.

The infiltration of criminal alien crime and criminal gangs, such MS-13, across our open borders... has severely endangered the public safety of every city and every county in America.

We're at a crisis point in this country. Congress needs to take serious measures right now in the enforcement of our immigration laws both at the border and on the interior.

You got Congressman Yvette Clarke who stood in front of an ICE building and called us the Gestapo.

You got Ocasio-Cortez who calls our places concentration camps.

Nancy Pelosi said yesterday the President is not above the law, but she thinks illegal aliens who have a final order issued by a Federal judge is above the law.

I will defend the men and women of the Border Patrol and ICE until the day I die.

Gang membership, by the way, should be an automatic removable offense and nullify any DACA protection.

Sanctuary policies across this country have to be stopped.

The hostility against ICE has to stop and demonizing has to end.

We have chaos on the southern border, criminal and gang infiltration of every city, county, and community in the United States.

Streamline the process for permitting for waste. Empower public health officials and executives.

We will contain Ebola in Dallas, Texas. It is only a matter of time before the next case comes to our shores.

I urge Congress to pass the appropriations necessary to fight Ebola in Africa, which is the best way to stem the epidemic.

We must not allow fear and panic to weaken our resolve, nor force us to abandon the values that that have built this great country.

Local government has treated everyone involved in the Ebola with dignity, and compassion, and as fellow human beings, not merely as disease contacts.