[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11789]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    FLOOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 1684

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, in March, the Homeland Security 
Committee unanimously approved a bill to authorize funding for the 
Department of Homeland Security for the coming year. It wasn't a 
perfect bill, but it was one the committee accepted.
  Now the liberal leadership plans to strip the most critical 
provisions in the legislation. These are not controversial points that 
should make my colleagues on the other side of the aisle uncomfortable. 
Unless, of course, the Democrats do not agree with an increased 
emphasis on immigration enforcement at the ports or secure biometric 
identification for aliens captured at sea or critical funding to 
protect America's food supply. But, as we've all seen since the 
Democrats took over in January, we know that is the case.
  But it actually gets worse. The liberal leadership voted against 
allowing noncontroversial amendments to increase information sharing 
between DHS and cops on the beat, allowing DHS to investigate Social 
Security fraud at the workplace, and increased fines of employers who 
knowingly hire illegal aliens.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill makes a mockery of the democratic process, 
does nothing extra to secure our borders and will, unfortunately, 
probably make our Nation less safer.
  Welcome to Homeland Security, Democrat style.

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