End the Border Catastrophe Act

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Mr. SUOZZI. Mr. Roy, the histrionics and the hyperbole are not working. You said so yourself.

It is not working. It is not working.

The bottom line is that we face issues that are very serious in our country, including the border. There is a crisis there, and we have to address it by doing what we are doing today and tomorrow related to the foreign aid bill.

We have to work together. We have to find compromise. We have to find bipartisan solutions.

Every problem we face in our country is complicated, and you cannot solve complicated problems in an environment of fear and anger. People have to sit down and work with each other.

I know Mr. Moore is a very good man. There are a lot of good people on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. Let's work together to solve these very serious issues we face in our country.

We had a bipartisan solution by one of the most ethical, honest, hardworking conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, James Lankford. We didn't go forward with that bipartisan bill because President Trump and others said that we don't want to give Biden the victory, that we want to campaign on the chaos.

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Mr. SUOZZI. Mr. Speaker, they said we don't want to go forward on that bill because we want to campaign on the chaos, and we don't want to give victory to the Democrats.

It is not a victory for Biden or for the Democrats. It is a victory for the United States of America.

Mr. Speaker, for us to move forward as a country, we have to work together.

I see the people up here in the gallery. People watch television, and they read the newspaper. They are sick of this. They don't want us fighting with each other. They don't want us with the histrionics and the hyperbole. They want us to sit down and negotiate a settlement.

H.R. 2 was tried before. It didn't work.

Let's say you get everything you want. Let's say Trump gets elected. Let's say that you win the House, the Senate. I don't want that to happen, obviously, but let's say you get everything you want. You won't get enough votes in the Senate. You will still have to negotiate a bipartisan compromise.

People have to learn to get back to the basics of legislating, negotiating, and working together to solve the problems that the people of America demand that we solve.

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