[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1220]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   BORDER SECURITY BILL IS DANGEROUS

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Madam Speaker, it is now week 4 in the new Republican 
Congress. There is still no jobs bill anywhere in sight. Instead of 
taking up an infrastructure bill or a minimum wage bill to give working 
families bigger paychecks, we are seeing a dangerous immigration bill 
that will actually hurt our Nation's security.
  Next week, Republican leadership is abandoning a bipartisan border 
security bill from the last Congress and instead trying to pass an 
irresponsible and unworkable $10 billion bill that simply appeases the 
extreme voices within their caucus.
  Border security experts say this bill would be ineffective. They call 
it unserious and dangerous for our Nation's security. Secretary Jeh 
Johnson says that if enacted, it would actually leave the border less 
secure.
  This does not combat threats or secure our border. It simply requires 
the Federal Government to spend billions of dollars of taxpayer money 
on unnecessary projects.
  If we really wanted to do something here in this House about border 
security, let's bring up the Border Security Results Act that was 
unanimously passed by the Homeland Security Committee in the last 
Congress, bipartisan and unanimous, and it would get things done.

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