[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 519-520]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FUNDING

  (Mr. VEASEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VEASEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call on my Republican 
colleagues to just stop it; stop endangering the American public, stop 
endangering our national security and get to work for the American 
people.
  The Department of Homeland Security should have been properly funded 
when the CR/Omnibus bill passed. Homeland Security is supposed to 
ensure our local law enforcement, emergency responders, antiterrorism 
experts, and border security professionals have the resources they need 
to keep our country safe. Instead, House Republicans continue to talk 
about deporting kids and pushing their anti-immigrant agenda against 
Dreamers and compromising our national security.
  This way of thinking, this type of exclusion is what divides our 
Nation. In a time when we need to be strong and stand together, 
Republican House leadership continues to turn their backs on 
opportunities to work together. The only way to fix our broken 
immigration system is by passing true immigration reform that secures 
our borders, protects our workers, unites our families, and provides an 
earned pathway to citizenship.
  It is time to pass a clean DHS funding bill and bring comprehensive 
immigration reform to a vote.

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