[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 126 (Thursday, July 25, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H7445-H7446]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            BORDER SECURITY

  (Mr. ROY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROY. Madam Speaker, I would notice that there is a certain smell 
here of jet fumes; that this Chamber is completely empty, here, July 
25, my colleagues--well, it is empty for the most part.
  My colleagues are headed off to the airport to fly home; fly home for 
fundraisers, vacation.
  But you know what they are not doing? Nobody in this body is going to 
stay here to secure the border of the

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United States. While we have got thousands of people pouring across our 
border, while ICE does not have the resources it needs to do its job, 
this body is adjourning.
  I had 40 of my colleagues, give or take--and it is a growing list--
that have asked the Speaker that we should stay here. We should not 
adjourn. How can we possibly adjourn without giving ICE the resources 
it needs for the beds to be able to put people, to be able to deal with 
the border crisis? Yet, that is what this body is going to do.
  It is unconscionable that we are allowing our border to stay open, 
and that this body is going to adjourn, go home and, for 6 weeks, not 
do our duty as a sovereign Nation to have a secure border, to make sure 
migrants can come here safely; but more importantly, that our law 
enforcement has the tools that it needs to do the job that we ask them 
to do when they are standing on the line every day defending this 
country.
  With cartels having operational control of our border, endangering 
this country, it is our duty to do it. We should stay here.

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