[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 90 (Wednesday, June 22, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H4377]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                 HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS BILL

  (Mr. DENT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DENT. I too rise today to urge the Senate to take up this year's 
Homeland Security appropriations bill. The Senate has a bad habit of 
waiting to do just about anything. It's bad enough that the Senate has 
refused to even take up a budget. It's been hundreds of days before 
they considered to do one. But now they're derelict in their duties by 
failing to deal with the Homeland Security appropriations bill. We need 
to fund ICE, we need to fund CBP, we need to fund the Coast Guard, and 
many other critical functions of this Department. Of course, FEMA has 
great needs right now with the floods in Missouri, and elsewhere, and 
all the tragedies we've seen with the tornadoes across the country. 
It's important now that we get this funding, which was appropriated out 
of the House, through the Senate.
  Mr. Speaker, with the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and those horrific 
attacks just weeks away and disasters occurring all over the country, I 
certainly urge today that the Senate move forward. There can be no 
further delay. The motto of the Senate simply can't be: do nothing, do 
nothing, do nothing; start slow and then wind down from there.
  That's what we seem to be getting. But not on this bill. Move the 
House appropriations bill on Homeland Security immediately.

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