Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2015
Floor Speech
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Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank the chairman of the
Appropriations Committee (Mr. Carter) for his leadership in putting a
great bill and a comprehensive bill before us this morning that deals
with protecting the homeland.
I am presenting today, along with my distinguished colleagues--in
particular, from South Carolina (Mr. Mulvaney), and also Mr. Barletta
from Pennsylvania--an amendment that defunds the President's
unconstitutional executive actions on illegal immigration.
As it has been noted here last night and this morning, back in
December, the House voted to fund the Federal Government for this
fiscal year, FY15, but we kept funding for the Department of Homeland
Security on a continuing resolution. By doing so, we were making a
promise to the American people. It was a promise that once we had a
Republican Senate, we would work together as a Congress to ensure the
President's unconstitutional and unilateral actions would not go
unchecked. Today, this promise has been kept with this amendment before
us today.
At this time, I would like to yield 1 minute to the distinguished
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Carter), the chairman of the Homeland
Security Subcommittee on Appropriations.
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Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Chairman, again let me just say before the
gentleman closes, the amendment here before us today prevents any funds
appropriated, or user fees collected by any Federal agency, to be used
to carry out the executive actions that were announced on November 20,
2014, which would grant deferred action to an estimated 4 million
people in the country illegally and unlawfully.
Again, this goes back to a promise that was made by the Republican
House of Representatives at the end of last year, and we addressed this
issue saying that we would work on this issue, make a commitment to
address this issue of the President's action when this bill came to the
floor, and this is fulfilling that promise today.
Again, I would ask my colleagues to support this amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
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