[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 201 (Thursday, December 20, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H10501]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             COMMENDING REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP FOR LISTENING

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I commend our Republican leadership today 
for listening to our conference and putting back into the continued 
resolution the needed disaster relief for the southern States and for 
the West Coast, and the border security measure demanded by most 
Americans in this country.
  To not do so, to just accept the product that the Senate punted over 
here, would have been a travesty and a dereliction of our duties here, 
I think, in the U.S. House of Representatives. These are very important 
things that need to be done and need to be accomplished, with the 
caravan amassing on our southern border and the security measures that, 
although heroically done so far by our Border Patrol folks, need to be 
augmented with this asset.
  Heaven knows, our southern States, having been affected by 
hurricanes; and farmers depending on decisions to be made in this 
place; and, on the West Coast, with the fires in my own district, the 
stability needed from the funding that would come from a disaster 
relief package, I am really pleased to see the work of the House today 
put this back out there and send it over to the Senate, where I hope 
they will have the guts to actually deal with it.

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