[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 152 (Wednesday, September 20, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H4428]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                  ZERO OUT SECRETARY MAYORKAS' SALARY

  (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, the Holman rule is a rule in the House of 
Representatives that allows amendments to appropriations bills that 
reduce the salary of Federal employees. It is a great mechanism for 
punishing Federal employees and public servants who fail the American 
people.
  I can think of no greater failure than this administration allowing 
millions of illegal immigrants to pour over our southern and even 
northern borders. This mass illegal immigration, sometimes aided and 
abetted by the Biden administration, is an insult and a farce. From the 
language some of its proponents use, it seems as though it is being 
done out of pure spite.
  It is supposed to be the job of the Department of Homeland Security 
to prevent illegal immigration in this country and deport those who 
violate this Nation's sovereignty. Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has 
utterly failed his duty and stubbornly insists to Congress and Senate 
Republicans he has done nothing wrong.
  I disagree. Secretary Mayorkas has done much wrong. What is worse is 
that, in fact, he could argue the border situation would be better if 
he had simply done nothing. When you see welded-open gates, when you 
see even the city of New York saying, Please make it stop, and they 
start shoving people into the border States, you know you have got a 
giant problem.
  Maybe Secretary Mayorkas' salary would be better off under the Holman 
rule adjusted down to $1 per year because that is even too much.

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