OFFICIALS LEGISLATION INTEREST GROUPS PUBLIC STATEMENTS COMMITTEES VETOES

Funding for the Department of Homeland Security

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 11, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Immigration

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Mrs. TORRES. Mr. Speaker, it is irresponsible to hold homeland
security funds hostage simply because some of my colleagues don't like
the President's action on immigration. There is a time and place to
have this debate--and this isn't it.

I spent my career working in public safety and emergency preparedness
with the LAPD. Security is in my blood. I know how important it is to
be able to plan, prepare, and maintain the morale of those on the front
lines.

If we let the Department of Homeland Security funding expire, it
isn't nameless bureaucrats who will be suffering. We will shutter the
Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, halt R work to counter security
threats, and end FEMA training activities with our local law
enforcement. That says nothing of the 147,000 Border Patrol, ICE, and
TSA officers, Active Duty Coast Guard, and Secret Service agents who
will be forced to work without pay.

These men and women have our backs. We should have theirs.

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