[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 26, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H2112]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            REVERSE PRESIDENT TRUMP'S EMERGENCY DECLARATION

  (Mrs. KIRKPATRICK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, the President has set a dangerous 
precedent by crying wolf in the name of national emergency.
  I represent parts of the southern Arizona border. My community knows 
the border. We know the further away from the border you live, the more 
fictional the border narrative.
  Border crossings are down to one-fifth of what they were in 2000, and 
apprehensions are at their lowest level in more than four decades. 
Those are facts.
  Instead of protecting our national security, the President's 
declaration makes America less safe. The President is stealing billions 
from high-priority military construction projects that ensure our 
troops have the essential training and resources they need to keep the 
American people safe.
  We will not sit by when the President abuses his power. I am 
confident that my Republican colleagues will regret supporting this 
false national emergency when there is a Democrat in the White House.

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