[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2305]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FUNDING

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, I guess it is pretty clear that politics 
continues. Rather than bringing to the floor of the House a bipartisan 
Homeland Security bill, what the House brought to the floor back in 
January was a highly political, highly partisan bill--anti-immigrant 
legislation--that they knew was dead on arrival when it landed in the 
Senate. So let's make the record clear:
  Democrats and Republicans have agreed to a clean Homeland Security 
bill; but rather than bringing that to the House floor for a vote, we 
continue to see the House Republican leadership pander to the most 
extreme, anti-immigrant voices in their party.
  That is not what the American people expect of us. It is politics as 
usual. I do not understand why it continues to be the order of the day 
here. The American people reject that. We should be focusing our 
attention on the big questions: building an economy for the American 
people that works for everybody rather than for the few, rather than an 
economy rigged for the few.
  Look, the American people are tired of this. I know other Members of 
Congress on both sides of the aisle are tired of this. Bring a clean 
Homeland Security bill to the floor.

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