[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12400]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  TOO MUCH RHETORIC--TOO LITTLE ACTION

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, over a month ago, the administration 
promised to send 1,200 National Guard troops to the border. But the 
troops still aren't there. Now the White House is saying it'll be 
another month before there's a ``steep ramp-up'' of the troops--and 
they'll be there only 4 months. And there'll be a complete ramp-down by 
June of 2011. And they'll be unarmed National Guardsmen.
  You see, the troops aren't actually going to the border. There will 
be unarmed guards guarding computers 50 miles north of the border. And 
there'll be 1,200 troops but they all won't be there at the same time. 
That's like saying a store is open 24 hours but just not 24 hours in a 
row. What kind of border security plan is that? There is no sense of 
urgency to stop the violence and the killing along the border. Too much 
rhetoric and too little action coming out of the White House. Like my 
grandfather used to say, there's more thunder than rain.
  And that's just the way it is.

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