[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 23 (Wednesday, February 6, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H1368]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          INVEST IN MEANINGFUL PHYSICAL BARRIERS AT OUR BORDER

  (Mr. GIANFORTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIANFORTE. Madam Speaker, Border Patrol agents recently made the 
largest fentanyl bust in the agency's history. A suspect attempted to 
cross our southern border with nearly 400 pounds of meth and enough 
fentanyl to kill 57 million Americans.
  Montana faces a meth epidemic that is tearing our families apart. We 
must secure the border to cut off the meth supply that cartels push 
through the ports of entry and across our porous borders.
  Securing the border with a physical barrier enjoys bipartisan 
support. More than 60 Democrats in the House and the Senate have 
claimed a physical barrier should be part of the solution.
  Both U.S. Senators from Montana have voted for physical barriers. 
Yet, despite bipartisan support for a physical barrier, the Speaker 
recently declared there is not going to be any money for a wall.
  Madam Speaker, I urge Members of the border security conference 
committee to listen to lawmakers from both parties and invest in 
meaningful physical barriers at our southern border.

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