[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1991]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FUNDING

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, a million jobs were 
created in the last 3 months; the deficit is down, and the stock market 
is up; but instead of building on this progress, the Republican Party 
is again threatening a partial government shutdown. This time, it is 
the Department of Homeland Security. We don't have many days left.
  Why? Because the anti-immigrant fringe of the majority party 
disagrees with the President's decision to address our broken 
immigration system. If they don't get their way, they would stop paying 
our Border Patrol agents, stop paying our TSA security screeners at 
airports, stop paying the Coast Guard and Secret Service. The men and 
women who work to keep us secure would have to worry about how they 
would feed their families instead of protecting our country.
  This is dangerous to our security and to our economy. I urge my 
colleagues to let common sense prevail and pass a clean Department of 
Homeland Security bill. The American people deserve their security.

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