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Motion to Instruct Convferees on H.R. 240, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 27, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Government Budget and Spending Immigration

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Madam Speaker, I realize that I haven't been serving in this body very long--only 8 weeks--but today is exactly the kind of day that drives most people nuts about Congress.
Even though we all agree--Senate Republicans, Senate Democrats, in a more than 2-1 vote; House Democrats and House Republicans--that we need to fund the Department of Homeland Security, yet here we are a few hours before the deadline once again playing around with the security of the United States.

Madam Speaker, we have a way to end this. We have the Senate bill in front of us. Let us adopt the bipartisan bill, get the Department of Homeland Security funded, and then we can move on and have this legitimate debate about immigration.

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