[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 86 (Friday, May 17, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H3343]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      RESTORE ORDER AT THE BORDER

  (Mr. CARBAJAL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARBAJAL. Madam Speaker, I rise today to remind this Chamber and 
our Nation that it has been over 100 days since congressional 
Republicans blocked a bipartisan bill to restore order at the border 
and fix our immigration system.
  Week after week, only toothless, do-nothing resolutions attacking the 
President have been brought forward. When my colleagues across the 
aisle were presented with a bipartisan bill to actually tackle the 
chaos at our southern border, crack down on fentanyl trafficking, and 
begin to fix our broken immigration system, they said that is not their 
problem to solve.
  This is a bill that would have hired nearly 2,000 new border 
personnel and immigration judges and streamlined our asylum system, 
making the process faster and fairer. It would have funded new 
inspection machines that could have been screening for deadly fentanyl 
for the past 100 days if only my Republican colleagues would have 
brought this bill up for a vote.
  Madam Speaker, actions speak louder than words. One hundred days is 
already too long to wait. Let's vote on this bill today.

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