[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 159 (Friday, September 29, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H4861]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        WHITE FLAG OF SURRENDER

  (Mr. GAETZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GAETZ. Madam Speaker, the continuing resolution being offered 
today is a bad deal for Republicans. The entire premise of this 
continuing resolution is that if Republicans surrender on every single 
issue except the border that it will be good politics because we will 
force the Democrats to defend bad border policy.
  However, Madam Speaker, surrender has been a virus that has afflicted 
my fellow Republicans for far too long. To prove the point, just look 
at the border policies that we are supposedly fighting for. The border 
policies that Republicans will argue for this morning represent a 
retreat from the border policies we took last night.
  Last night, we said we wouldn't fund DHS unless E-Verify was passed 
because they had to take up H.R. 2. Now we are saying we will give 
Mayorkas and the Biden administration more money even if they don't 
pass E-Verify. Overnight, in the last 11 hours, the Republican border 
position has gotten weaker through this continuing resolution. That is 
why I am voting against it.

  We cannot be serious about border security without E-Verify. I will 
fight for E-Verify. Eleven hours ago, the Republicans fought for E-
Verify, and now the white flag of surrender.

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