June 20, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3975 billion and, literally, as I started to to our being able to join some mothers say to you that opinions that will not say, and have said, dismantle the that stood with me earlier this week, impact on national security or classi- kitchen, dismantle the table, take the mothers that demand action, and they fied information can be shown to the utensils and just say, plop down on the ask me about the idea of protecting American people. There’s nothing floor. their children with sensible gun legis- wrong with that. And as we came to the end of the bill, lation that would prevent gun violence. So I am looking forward to working that was not enough. The Southerland I hope, among other initiatives, a uni- in a bipartisan way on unfinished busi- amendment came forward and said, not versal background check will also look ness. And I can only say, Mr. Speaker, only are we going to insult you and to laws that will require the storage of in my final entreat to this body, the take all the utensils and table away, one’s guns, none of which impact or one thing that we should not do is to but we’re going to make it a boon- take away from the Second Amend- take the little hand of a child and to doggle. ment. push it back from the table or from We’re going to give incentives. We’re Then I hope in unfinished business food. And what we did today was just going to make it a gambling oppor- that we will continue to find, in a bi- that. tunity for our States. We’re going to partisan way, a pathway forward for I want a farm bill, but today I was let them throw the dice. How many can helping those individuals who came to proud to stand with the children of you get off of SNAP? And if you get this country, through no fault of their America who are better off because them off, you’ll be able to pocket the own, who come to this country and are they’ve been able to stamp out hunger money. working and don’t want to do us harm, through a program called SNAP, the We don’t want to control what you do but simply want to find a way to stay Supplemental Nutrition Assistance with it. We’re not going to suggest that in a country that they love, and, as Program, and will continue to do so you put it in education, or maybe give well, to say to the American people until we get it right. Our children are back to the schools so they can get a that we take no shortness in your need our precious resource. different kind of meal for the child and commitment for border security. With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield back that’s lost the breakfast program. No, I don’t see why we can’t do it all. the balance of my time. we don’t care. That is not unheard of. It is not impos- f You’re just going to pocket the sible. It frankly is something that we IMMIGRATION REFORM money and run off into the hills. can go do. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. I want to close by saying that I am a States have many burdens. I’m a ROTHFUS). Under the Speaker’s an- person that loves the Constitution, be- champion of our States. I love my nounced policy of January 3, 2013, the lieves in the Bill of Rights, the First State. But I’ve seen the tough debates gentleman from Iowa (Mr. KING) is rec- Amendment, the freedom of press, that my State legislators have had, ognized for 60 minutes as the designee speech, the Fourth Amendment that fighting to get a few parcels for food, of the majority leader. for education dollars, for infrastruc- protects you against unreasonable Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I ap- ture dollars. search and seizure, the Griswold v. preciate the privilege of being recog- So I know it’s tough; but as I said, Connecticut Supreme Court case along nized to address you here on the floor some States are a little bit more better with the Ninth Amendment on the of the United States House of Rep- off than others. It’s all about prior- question of privacy. So I’m going to resentatives. I won’t, at this time, take ities. make a commitment to my colleagues up all the issues that were raised in the And I can only say, Mr. Speaker, that that we work together on the issue of previous 45 minutes or so, Mr. Speaker. today we didn’t commend ourselves ensuring the American people’s civil Instead, I’d like to talk about two top- well. I want to go back. I want to be liberties while we ensure our national ics, though, and one of those topics is able to, if you will, I want to be able to security. We can do both. the topic of the farm bill which histori- put the table, the utensils back, the I have introduced legislation that cally, in a sad way, failed here on the table cloth. would ask for a study of all of the out- floor of the House of Representatives I want to be able to have a poor fam- side contractors that are in the intel- within the last hour or so, hour and a ily have a nutritious meal. I want to be ligence business and to present that half. able to have a child have a lunch or study to the United States Congress The first thing I want to say about breakfast. I want a disabled person to and ensure that all those who have top- that is that the chairman of the Ag be able to have the right kind of food secret clearance are doing it in the Committee, FRANK LUCAS of Okla- to help them in their illness. I want an name of this Nation, otherwise to homa, has conducted himself in a fash- elderly person to be able to have their present a plan to reduce that usage by ion that is deserving of and he receives prescription drugs and, as well, to be 25 percent by 2014. That is only the fair my admiration and should receive that able to have food that will nourish way because certainly we must have of his constituents and the people of them. oversight to who has access to your this country. I close, Mr. Speaker, by saying that I private information and is it access in One of the most difficult balances to spoke about unfinished business. And order to secure this Nation. I stand achieve in any bill that we produce as we go forward, I join my colleague with them if that is the case. here in Congress is that 5-year—we call from New York, call upon the good peo- But I ask the question, why are per- it the ‘‘farm bill’’—the 5-year farm bill ple of this House, who represent the sons far-flung and unsupervised with that has roughly 80 percent nutrition good Americans of this Nation, to come top-secret credentials such as the indi- in it and about 20 percent agriculture back together and find a way that vidual who has decided to leak infor- in it. And each 5 years, we try to write passes a farm bill that does not put on mation that is now being assessed? We the best formula and look into the the sacrificial table of destruction poor have to ask the question, are creden- crystal ball for the next 5 years as well people who, through no fault of their tials, do they meet the test? Are pri- as we can, and it takes the chairman of own, are unemployed or disabled, or vate contractors making a review of the Ag Committee, which is the least have children, or are only able to sup- these individuals and assessing them partisan of the committees here on the port the children and provide for them and giving them clearance or if not, Hill, to direct the committee staff— in this way because they live in an area not supervising them? I have to ask which are very experienced and some of where there are no jobs. that question. the best staff people we have here on They hope there’ll be jobs. They want And then I would say that it is im- the Hill—to work with the ag staff of there to be jobs but, at this point, it portant that where you can be pre- the Democrat side, or the opposite hasn’t come. sented opinions that deal with some- party, and work with the ranking thing we call the FISA court, which is member to try to bring together such a b 1510 the court that we go into to protect variety of issues that have to do with I conclude my remarks by saying in a your rights and to be able to go into sugar, dairy, crop insurance, nutrition list of things that we must do as unfin- and make determinations about wheth- and the qualifications for nutrition, ished business, I look forward, as well, er or not there is surveillance, I would piece after piece of this.

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I believe that over here on the Democrat side. If you ceived 218 votes. today. It’s moving too quickly without don’t take enough out of there, you Today, Mr. Speaker, we saw an exam- enough debate. It’s too big a decision lose votes on the Republican side. If ple of when that didn’t work, when an to be made. I believed, and I believe you don’t take enough money out of amendment or two or three went on that it’s still moving too quickly agriculture, you lose it over here on that were more of an objection to that through the House of Representatives. some of the conservative side. And on careful and delicate balance that had I would point out that there was a the other hand, if you don’t have been put together by FRANK LUCAS. In Gang of Eight in the Senate—there re- enough subsidy, you lose votes on the the end, when the votes could not come mains a Gang of Eight in the Senate— Democrat side. together—in a very rare thing—a 5- that had been meeting in private and This is a very difficult balance, Mr. year bill—that actually has been 6 holding some press conferences, talk- Speaker, and the marriage between the years since we passed one—failed here ing about the things that they were at- farm bill and the nutrition component on the floor of the House of Represent- tempting to do, that finally rolled out of this, or the agriculture component atives. a bill. I believe it was rolled out at 844 and the nutrition component that we Mr. Speaker, I won’t forget this day. pages long. erroneously call the ‘‘farm bill’’ here I hope that this Congress, I hope the The debate and the markup that took because of history, that marriage was American people, and I hope, espe- place in the Judiciary Committee in created out of necessity because the cially, the constituents of FRANK the United States Senate was rel- farm program could not be passed on LUCAS remember the job that he has atively long. There were a good number its own. There were too many oppo- done. I don’t ever remember seeing of amendments that were offered. But nents to that, and the nutrition pro- anybody in this Congress work so wise- most of those votes—some might even gram had too much opposition on its ly, so honestly, so justly and so care- say all of those votes—just came down own. And they married the two to- fully to put together something that the lines of whether they were part of gether, and each 5 years or so—and it had to be so carefully balanced to have the deal or whether they weren’t part hasn’t always happened in 5 years. I a glass of cold water thrown in his face of the deal. So it looked like the Gang don’t know when it’s ever happened is what happened here, I think, on the of Eight had a deal going into the Judi- perfectly—it’s been dialed together as floor today. ciary Committee markup. They cer- closely as possible and cooperation was b 1520 tainly came out of that with their deal asked from Democrats and Republicans intact, and it’s to the floor of the to finally come together and pass a So I wanted to express my regret that the farm bill failed here today, United States Senate today. That’s bill. fast and fast track. FRANK LUCAS put that together as and my appreciation for FRANK LUCAS, While that’s going on, the attention perfectly as I think it could be done. I for the subcommittee chairs and the of the American people on this issue think, Mr. Speaker, that he was a mae- ranking members that worked with us has been split between the United stro in the way he orchestrated all of on this. Those that gave their word and States Senate and the House. There this. And I watched as we went through kept it, I thank all of them. And Mr. has been a working group, a bipartisan the committee markup. We did one last Speaker, I’m hopeful that the day will working group, in the House also. In year and couldn’t get floor time to de- come that that work that has been the Senate, it’s four Democrats and bate a bill. And so the work of the com- earned is exonerated by a vote here on four Republicans in the Gang of Eight. mittee wasn’t necessarily wasted be- the floor of the House. In either case, I In the House, I learned not that long cause we started again this year. We want the RECORD to reflect my opinion ago that the working group was four began to put the pieces together again. and my appreciation for FRANK LUCAS. Democrats and four Republicans. I also We had a long markup of the bill, an We’ve had a big week here, Mr. learned that the Speaker encouraged extended markup of the bill, not as Speaker. In this big week and this big their work, and I learned that they long as it was the previous year, and day that I’ll just call yesterday, I look were working in secret for perhaps the the pieces came together. back on it after a full day and I’ve won- Here’s what it needed: it needed to dered how one could actually do all of last 4 years. have a strong, bipartisan support com- the things that were accomplished yes- Well, it was in secret. I have, I be- ing out of committee before it was terday. I just want to run through that lieve, served more time in the seat, lis- going to get floor time, and it needed narrative because it’s fresh in my tening and hearing immigration infor- to have a prospect, a reasonable pros- mind. And that is that yesterday we mation and reading through reports, pect, of 218 votes here on the floor of did the longest press conference in the probably than anybody else on my side the House before that floor time would history of Congress. I don’t know what of the aisle over the last decade—al- be granted. And as we have seen from competition there might have been for though there are two or three that I the Speaker, he has consistently said that—now, who would want to have a think have a high level of expertise on that he wants to see the House work its long press conference? Well, somebody immigration policy. will. that wanted to have a long time to air My antennae aren’t that weak here, Now, he let that happen on a con- out a huge issue, and the issue was im- Mr. Speaker, that I’m not picking up tinuing resolution in January, or I’ll migration. the signals of what’s going on behind say February of 2011, and we did 92 I have believed for some weeks now— closed doors. We talk, we flow through hours of debate here on the floor under in fact, 2 or 3 months—that the ma- here to vote, we meet with each other, an open rule. And every aspect of the chinery of this Congress was set up to but I didn’t know that there was a se- budget was the House working its will, push immigration—and I’ll call it cret committee working here out of the and that was the longest and most ex- ‘‘comprehensive immigration reform,’’ House of Representatives that had the pressive way that I have seen this which is of course the euphemism for blessing of the Speaker. I didn’t know House work its will. amnesty—through this Congress faster that until it was announced by the But the Rules Committee here on the than the Congress could adjust to it, press some weeks ago. And the secret farm bill that came out of the Ag Com- learn about the policy within the committee that didn’t admit to its ex- mittee allowed a full series of amend- issues, and faster than the American istence, some of them facetiously ments here on the floor. The chairman people could learn about it and weigh spoke about it as ‘‘that secret com- spoke to that number. I think he said in. We always need to move at the pace mittee’’ even though they finally ad- there were over 100 amendments here of the American people so that they mitted—and the press, I think, ferreted

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He was across our border every night, on aver- ability to produce a bill seems to have well respected by his men that I saw age. And maybe those illegal crossings been stalled here in this Congress. I’m around him. But I asked him about the have been reduced by half—maybe. not sorry about that. frequency of the crossing there, at the That’s still the size of Santa Anna’s About the same time that conclusion legal crossing at the point of entry army every night. may have been drawn, I heard our which is pretty much a rural port of We are talking about whether we Speaker, I believe it was 2 weeks ago entry in Sasabe, Arizona. And he said, should legalize the people that came on Friday at his press conference, say well, this crossing isn’t the busiest across that border. And we’re assuming he hoped to see immigration legisla- crossing near here. There is an illegal by the argument of, say, Mr. tion pass out of the Judiciary Com- crossing east of me that’s far busier GUTIE´ RREZ of Illinois and many others mittee in the month of June. Well, that and an illegal crossing west of me that they’re all innocent people that was a surprise to me. And when the an- that’s far busier. This is just our for- were brought in by their parents— nouncement came shortly thereafter mal crossing. That tells you something maybe against their will, certainly that we should clear our schedules for about what’s going on on the border. without their knowledge that there this week and next week as members of We can close the border. We can do it was anything wrong with it or illegal the Judiciary Committee to prepare for with the resources that we have. I have with it, that that’s the universe of all a markup on immigration, I saw that long said that. I have not changed my the people that are unlawfully present as a green flag that was dropped that position—I think it’s stronger rather in the United States are just simply moves the immigration policy more than weaker. those that wanted to come to America quickly here in the House of Represent- I may be the only one that’s actually for a better life. atives than I’m comfortable with. gone back and done the work to cal- Mr. Speaker, I go down to the border. But I do not criticize the conduct of culate what we’re spending to defend I sit alongside that fence at night. I our chairman of the Judiciary Com- our southern border. These numbers don’t have night vision, but I have mittee. BOB GOODLATTE is one of the are old, Mr. Speaker, that I’m about to ears. I can sit in the dark and I can more astute people on policy that we quote here this afternoon. They come hear the vehicles come down through have in this Congress. He is a seasoned to this: there’s a 50-mile area north of the mesquite. In fact, when you hear and knowledgeable and smart legis- our southwest border. Within that 50 the one with the bad muffler come lator, and he sees the pieces that are back a second time and a third time, moving and understands what he needs miles, you will see Border Patrol you know they’re shuttling people to to do to move the right pieces. And I agents, Custom and Border Protection come across the border at night. With- have served with him on two commit- agents, you will see ICE agents in there in, say, an hour after dark to the next tees now for more than 10 years. also. The effort that’s done to control And yet the pace that’s going our border also is the cost of their ve- 2 or 3 or 4 hours after dark is when the through this Congress may be a wise hicles, their communications, their highest traffic is, because they know one. It may be a wise one if enforce- benefits package, all of the things that they’ve got to walk across the desert a ment first is what emerges here from we invest in that area. When you add long ways and they want to make as the House of Representatives, and if that all up and you divide it out by the much time as they can before it turns the bill in the Senate can be slowed 2,000 miles—which is pretty close to it, daylight where they might hole up or down or stopped in the Senate. it’s the best number to use for the where they might be picked up if they The consensus that I hear among the length of the border, the southern bor- can get to the highway north of there. Republican Conference in the House of der—you end up with this number—and So I listen and I hear the vehicles Representatives is this, Mr. Speaker: this number would be adjusted upward, come through across the desert. I hear Stop the bleeding at the border. Shut not downward, to get it more current the mesquite scratch alongside the ve- off the bleeding at the border. Close the than the roughly 3 years ago that I’m hicle, and you hear the doors open. border. Get that done. And when you talking about: $6 million a mile. We’re Maybe 70, 80, 90, 100 yards south of the get that done, then come back and talk spending $6 million a mile, at a min- border you can hear the doors open. about the other things. imum, every year to control our south- You can hear people get out. First, I’d make the point that when I came ern border. And we’re getting, accord- they open the door. You can hear them here a little more than 10 years ago, I ing to Border Patrol testimony before drop their pack on the ground. Then said then let’s stop the bleeding at the the Immigration Subcommittee, about they get out and then they close the border. We’ve got to close the border. I 25 percent enforcement. door, kind of quietly, but it is still a came to this floor, and when people quiet slam of the door. You can hear b 1530 said, well, we can’t—I’ve advocated them pick up their packs, whisper. You long that we should build a fence, a They think that of the 100 people hear them walk through the brush, and wall and a fence on our southern bor- that would try to cross the border they you can hear them cross the fence. der. And that fence, wall and fence that might be stopping about 25 percent. When you’re down there at night we can build on the border would be Now, it’s probably gotten a little bet- without night vision, you sometimes what will help to secure our border. I ter in the last couple of years. But think you see some things you don’t agree that we would add to that sen- when I go down to the border, Mr. see. Have you ever sat around at night sory devices, vibration sensors, motion Speaker, and I ask the agents there in the pitch-black dark and watched? detectors, you name it, add all that to candidly, without identifying them- Your mind will play tricks on you. it. But you simply cannot have enough selves and without going on public I can’t say into the record, Mr. border patrol agents to control 2,000 record, what percentage of the illegal Speaker, that I saw good numbers of miles of border with the conditions border crossers are we interdicting, the people walk across the border. I know I that we have. They have to rotate most consistent number I get is 10 per- heard them. That’s the only place they shifts, they get their vacations, there’s cent, not 25. Some will smirk and say— could have been going. I heard them go time off. It takes a lot of people on or not really smirk, but they will just through the fence. I believe I saw the payroll to have enough people on the kind of snort and say, well, 3 or 4 per- shadows, but I’m not certain of that ground. And we know that there’s cent. The real answer is we don’t know. particular component. bleeding through that border, a lot They know more than we do. I’m very confident that there are that’s crossing through the border. The 10 percent number seems to me hundreds and hundreds of people that Mr. Speaker, I went down and did a to be more likely to be an accurate pour across that border at night. That surprise visit to a point of entry at number than the 25 percent number. number that I said is roughly half of

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All of seeding and the fencing, all of that, and So think of this beautiful shining those people that are coming into open up a four-lane interstate highway city on the hill—which Reagan so elo- America across that border, sometimes for about $4 million a mile. We’re quently described for us—sitting on the you will see a pack train of 75. Every spending $6 million on every single beautiful marble pillars of American one of them will have a pack of mari- mile of our southern border, and we’re exceptionalism, but I can’t think of juana on their back and they’re car- getting something like 25 percent or that city sitting there without also rying it into the United States, smug- less efficiency with what we have thinking of an essential pillar of gling it into the United States. Those there. exceptionalism called the rule of law. people fit under the DREAM Act defini- Part of it is because the President Now, if you would take a jack- tion, too, if they came into the United has declared, by executive edict, am- hammer and chisel away that marble States before they were 16 and had nesty. Even though I think the Border pillar of American exceptionalism, been here whatever the length of time Patrol is doing their job as well as they which is freedom of speech, and destroy might be. If they came here before De- can within those limits, it’s clear that freedom of speech, the beautiful edifice cember 31, 2011, it would be the Senate ICE has been handcuffed. We have had of our shining city on the hill would version of the bill. the President of the ICE union, Chris crumble and fall. If you did the same I’ve been on the border, Mr. Speaker, Crane, testify before this Congress—I thing to freedom of the press, our shin- and seen the shadow wolves interdict a think he’s been nine times into this ing city on the hill would crumble and smuggler, a marijuana smuggler, com- city within the last year and a half or fall. If you took away our Second ing through with a false bed in the box so—doing a stellar job of pointing out Amendment rights, which I didn’t men- of a pick-up truck that was extended that the law requires the Federal im- tion but which are a pillar of American downward about 7 to 9 inches. Under- migration officers to place into re- exceptionalism, eventually our other neath that were the bales of marijuana. moval proceedings those people that freedoms would crumble and fall, and I unloaded them myself and took them they encounter that are unlawfully tyrants would take over. If you put up to the scales where they were present in the United States. It’s their people subject to double jeopardy, we weighed. They weighed approximately judgment on that that dictates. wouldn’t be the civilization we are, and 240 pounds. Well, the President has prohibited the rule of law wouldn’t mean what it The reason for that, Mr. Speaker—240 them from doing so through the Mor- does. It would crumble and fall just as pounds—is because in some sectors of ton Memos, the Morton Memos that it would if you destroyed the rule of the border they don’t have the ability law, if you have contempt for the rule to prosecute drug smugglers and so have been rejected by this Congress in two ways within the last 3 weeks or so. of law, if the Supreme Court dis- they set a limit, the prosecutors will regarded the rule of law, and if they set a limit. Sometimes it’s you have to One is a full vote in the House on the King amendment, and the other is a ruled on interpreting their law to be have more than 500 pounds of mari- their whim, their wish—not the very juana to be prosecuted; sometimes you vote in the Judiciary Committee on the King amendment. So we have, definition of the supreme law of the have to have more than 250 pounds of land, being our Constitution. marijuana to be prosecuted. The smug- every way that we’ve had the oppor- tunity, rejected the idea that the It is as the President so well de- glers know that. scribed on March 28, 2011, before a high I’m going to guess that the sector President can simply make up immi- school here in Washington, D.C., when that I was in that day, the limit was, gration law out of thin air, decide that he was asked: Why don’t you just im- at least anticipated by the smugglers, he can issue work permits, that he can plement the DREAM Act by executive to be 250 pounds. So they dialed it legalize people that are here illegally, order? under 250 to about 240 pounds and sent that he can, by executive edict, destroy His answer was to the students who their guy through, and he was caught. the rule of law—destroy the rule of were listening: I don’t have the con- What we don’t know is, was that a law. stitutional authority to do that. decoy so that when all converged on I often talk about the pillars of You’ve been studying the Constitution. that smuggler, that there wasn’t a American exceptionalism. We are a You students know that it’s the job of straight truck through with a couple of great country, Mr. Speaker. This great tons of marijuana in it. I don’t know country that we are relies upon this the legislature to pass the laws, the job that. Those are tactics that we see. America that Ronald Reagan described of the executive branch to enforce the That’s tactics of using sometimes ille- as the ‘‘shining city on a hill.’’ This laws and the job of the judicial branch gal crossings, sometimes going through city is built on the beautiful marble to interpret the laws. the legal crossings that we have. pillars of American exceptionalism. Now, that is an accurate description A lot of the border isn’t marked. Many of them are within the Bill of as should aptly come from a former ad- Across New Mexico, there’s a concrete Rights: junct professor of constitutional law at pylon from horizon to the next horizon Freedom of speech, religion, the the University of Chicago. That is our that’s just set there, and you would press, and assembly, all wrapped up in President. He knew what he was talk- have to know what you were looking the First Amendment to our Constitu- ing about, and that description was for to know where the border is. It’s tion; consistent with his oath of office, Mr. just open desert. I’ve flown most of There are property rights in the Speaker. that, a lot of that at night. I’ve also Fifth Amendment; The oath of office is defined within traveled—I’ll say that I’ve traveled There is a prohibition on double jeop- our Constitution. It’s specific. It has probably every mile of our southern ardy. You get to be faced by an accuser been concluded with ‘‘so help me God’’ border, with the exception of some of and a jury of your peers; for a long time, but within that oath is the miles along the Texas border, The States’ and personal rights that also the oath to preserve and protect which zigzags quite a lot, and I haven’t are reserved in the Ninth and Tenth and defend the Constitution of the covered all of that. Amendments. United States. In the Constitution, it Mr. Speaker, we can build a fence, a All of those are pillars of American requires the President of the United wall, and a fence, and we can do it with exceptionalism. So is free enterprise States—our chief executive law en- less money than we’re spending today capitalism. forcement officer and Commander in on the southern border, over $6 million If we had none of that, we wouldn’t Chief—‘‘to take care that the laws be a mile on the southern border. have the Nation we are. If you build— faithfully executed.’’ That doesn’t To put this in perspective, to build and I want to add to that, the core of mean, Mr. Speaker, execute the law. an interstate across Iowa cornfield—ex- our culture is Judeo-Christianity. We That doesn’t mean execute the rule of

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He has defied the Constitution, of the House and the Senate together. hold the Constitution and the rule of and he said, I’m not going to enforce They balanced the House and the law decided that they were going to the law. I’m not going to enforce the Senate so that this hot cup of coffee— honor the lawlessness. They decided laws that I don’t like. I disagree with or hot cup of tea, they were thinking that they were going to comply with some of the immigration policy that here in the House of Representatives— the President’s order because, well, has been passed by Congress and signed could be a quick reaction force when their jobs were on the line, for one by one of his predecessors—in fact, things go wrong in America. A new thing, but I say also they have an oath signed by Bill Clinton. He is refusing to crop of House Members comes in with of office for another. enforce those kinds of laws. the freshest of vigor that comes from When that happens, when there is a That does great damage to the Con- the American people, and they set dispute between the legislative branch stitution, and it throws the balance of about changing things. That’s a 2-year and the executive branch of govern- the three branches of government out election cycle. We saw that in 2010 ment, the judicial branch needs to step of whack. Our Founding Fathers imag- when 87 new freshmen Republicans in to sort out that dispute. I know they ined that there would be competition came into the House of Representa- don’t like to do that, Mr. Speaker. In for power and influence between the tives—every single one of them having any case, I asked for a meeting and in- three branches of government. They run for office on the promise to repeal vited people to come to the table, envisioned it always with three ObamaCare, every single one. Mean- which they did, and we discussed how branches of government—the legisla- while, while the House was being heat- we move forward to put a block on the tive branch, the executive branch and ed up, the Senate itself—which, if all of President’s unconstitutional assump- the judicial branch. the Senators rather than roughly a tion of legislative authority—a viola- This Congress is in article I. That third of them were up for election each tion of the separation of powers. means we are more the voice of the cycle, I think we would have seen the b 1550 people than any other branch of gov- majority turn over in the United ernment. It was the first and most im- States Senate, but it didn’t quite do I had been through that litigation in portant branch. They also knew that that. the past on an issue that I’ll not take they had to have a strong chief execu- So the Senate has been the cooling up here, but it had to do with a State tive—a strong President, a strong Com- saucer to the hot cup of tea or coffee issue and the State chief executive offi- mander in Chief. The experiences they that is the House. Our Founding Fa- cer. I knew the arguments. Out of that went through in fighting a Revolu- thers saw that, and they wanted to bal- meeting came the lawsuit of Crane v. tionary War with the Continental Con- ance that. They wanted to have the Napolitano. That’s Chris Crane, the gress told them you can’t have a strong longer view in the Senate. They wanted president of the ICE union as the lead national defense without a strong Com- the quick reaction forces in the House. plaintiff. Of course, now Napolitano is mander in Chief, so they established They wanted to blend them together, the Secretary of the Department of that. They established the balance be- and they did. I think they did a very Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. tween the legislative branch in article good job of that. That case went before the Northern I and the executive branch in article II They also wanted to then check an District of Texas, the Federal court, and also the balance—and, I think, to a overreach of article I, the legislative where Judge Reed O’Connor ruled in slightly lesser degree—between the ju- branch, the Congress, by giving the favor of the plaintiffs—that’s the ICE dicial branch. Think of it as a triangle. President of the United States veto union and the list of plaintiffs that are They envisioned that each branch of power. At the same time, they put con- there—ruled in favor of it in nine of 10 government would seek to expand its straints on the President because we arguments and sent the other argu- power. That’s human nature. You al- can control the activities of the execu- ment back to the executive branch to ways want more power than you actu- tive branch through the appropriations reword it in such a way—I’ll just use ally have, whether you take this thing if we can actually control the appro- my terms, Mr. Speaker—it’s more in- from the Pope to the President, right priations here in the House of Rep- telligible so he can answer and respond on down the line to the Senators, who resentatives. So they granted that au- on that particular point. have a one one-hundredth of the power thority, but they expected that there Generally, the decision was this: of the Senate Chamber, and to the would be like a tug of war for that Judge Reed O’Connor essentially House Members, who have a one four- power. They did not think that the wrote: shall means shall, not may. If it hundred-thirty-fifth of the House President of the United States would requires that the agents put people Chamber. We always want to have a take an oath of office to preserve, pro- that are unlawfully present in the little more leverage, a little more in- tect and defend the Constitution of the United States in removal proceedings, fluence—get your hands on a gavel or United States and be required to take if it says they ‘‘shall do so,’’ then they maybe become the majority leader, the care that the laws be faithfully exe- shall do so. Shall means shall. It minority leader, the Speaker of the cuted and then go out and execute the doesn’t mean may. And there is no House. Actually, the former Speaker of law rather than enforce the law, but word in our language that is more de- the House, Speaker PELOSI, just walked that’s what has happened. finitive that can replace the word across this floor, Mr. Speaker, and she The President has with impunity de- shall, at least as far as legal parlance is would understand that as we all do. In fied the rule of law, and has simply concerned. That’s essentially the deci- a family, you always want to have canceled immigration law that existed sion. more influence. If the patriarch of the on the books that requires ICE and So it seems to be—and I’m optimistic family is the one who writes the rules, Federal immigration law enforcement that it’s moving in the direction—that you always grate a little bit under- officers to place those individuals un- we will get a final decision in a Federal neath that. That’s a natural thing to lawfully here in removal proceedings. court and perhaps the administration always try to grab a little bit more That’s the law. The President sus- will appeal this all the way up the line power. pended it. to the Supreme Court. They knew it was human nature, so And what has happened here in Con- But in the end, I can’t imagine how a they set up this balance between the gress? judicial branch of government, how a three branches of government, but they There was an election after he did Supreme Court could come down on the envisioned that each branch of govern- that. On March 28, 2011, he said, I don’t side of the President and decide that ment would jealously protect its con- have the power to by executive order the President of the United States has

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Prosecu- the United States and you defraud your But remembering the mantra jobs torial discretion means that they can’t employer and you come up with fraud- and the economy until we were just enforce the law against every person ulent documents and you use that in drubbed into numbness with it also re- who might violate the law because order to get a job, this administration minds us that the election was not, Mr. they don’t have the resources, so the isn’t going to enforce document fraud, Speaker, about the immigration issue. resources need to be targeted where which is a felony against you. I don’t remember a debate between they do the most good. That’s prosecu- Essentially it said if you can get into Barack Obama and Mitt Romney that torial discretion. the United States legally or illegally, went into any depth or substance on I agree that that exists and that it’s if you can stay in the United States, the immigration issue. Yet before the necessary that the discretion of pros- you can cheat to get a job, you can lie sun came up on November 7, some of ecution exists. But I don’t agree that to your employer, you can use docu- the leading pundits and experts con- the President can define broad classes ment fraud and there won’t be a pen- cluded that Mitt Romney would be of people that include hundreds of alty to any of these things. Essen- President-elect by now before the sun thousands in a single class and then de- tially, nonviolent, peaceful crimes are came up on November 7 if he just cide that he’s not going to enforce the not going to be a problem. But if you hadn’t said the two words ‘‘self-de- law against any of them. That is what get engaged in some of the serious port,’’ or if he had not been such a de- he has done. He’s manufactured four things like maybe drug smuggling or fender of the rule of law on immigra- classes of people and decided he’s going the crimes of violence that we all know tion. to waive the law on all of these classes about or the threat of violence even, That was a surprise to me. I wish of people, suspend its enforcement. then it makes the administration un- he’d have talked about it more. Well, That turns out to be an invitation to comfortable, and they might decide to he didn’t. The election wasn’t about more and more people to violate the send you back and put you in the con- immigration, but talking heads and, law, even ‘‘to the extent of.’’ dition that you were in before you let me say, erroneously pragmatic indi- We have had illegal aliens in the broke the law. viduals in my party who decided that halls of the congressional offices that But peaceful people have been grant- they would contribute to this argu- have lobbied Members of Congress with ed amnesty by the President of the ment that came from both parties. And impunity. And they will come in boldly United States. And this Congress has they drove the argument to the point and say, I’m exempted from the law by sat here almost placidly and accepted where some people were convinced the the President of the United States, so I it as if he has that constitutional au- election really was about immigration can be here. And I demand that you thority, and he does not. That’s why when it was not. And they argued that agree with me and get me my college the lawsuit of Crane v. Napolitano was Mitt Romney would be President-elect education. They have been inside the filed, and it’s a clear understanding if he had just gotten a larger percent- Judiciary Committee room. They have from my standpoint. But the confusion age of the Hispanic vote. been introduced by the ranking mem- seems to be that too many Members He would not, Mr. Speaker. If he had ber of the Judiciary Committee. That’s that take an oath of office to preserve, won the majority of the Hispanic vote how far this has gotten, Mr. Speaker. protect, and defend this Constitution, in the swing States, he still would not The contempt for the law, the con- as well, don’t have a clear enough un- have won the Presidency. If he had won tempt for the rule of law and the sense derstanding of the brighter line be- 70 percent, he might have; but that of entitlement have gone beyond the tween article I and article II. didn’t happen. And no one really pale. Our job is to legislate, write the laws. thinks that’s going to happen in the So this rule of law, which must be re- The President’s job is to enforce them. near future. So they came to a conclu- constructed now, because the verbal It’s that simple. Yet there was an in- sion and thought they could support it and keyboard jackhammers of the left terpretation that came out to us on the with facts. They’ve learned now that have chiseled away at that beautiful morning of November 7. Wednesday they can’t support their conclusion marble pillar of American morning, November 7, Mr. Speaker— with facts, but they’re determined to exceptionalism called the rule of law. and a lot of people will understand and go forward with granting amnesty to And because they have done that, we remember what that date was. That initially—they think—11 million peo- must reconstruct it. And if we can’t was the day after the election. ple that are here in this country un- hold the rule of law together, if we I was engaged in this election as lawfully while providing the emptiest can’t restore it, if we can’t reconstruct much as I’ve been engaged in any elec- and most vacuous of promises that one it, then it crumbles. If the rule of law, tion. And as a Member of Congress day they’re going to get around to put- according to the Gang of Eight’s bill in from Iowa, I was also engaged in the ting a plan together, and if the plan the Senate, according to some of what Presidential nomination and election happens to be implemented they might seems to be moving here in the House, process. I was engaged in the debate. secure the border. destroys the rule of law at least with And I’ve done events that have to do regard to immigration, it destroys it. with Presidential candidates on a rel- b 1600 There would be no enforcement of the atively regular basis. I think I under- That’s what’s going on. And I don’t rule of law with regard to immigration stood what the debate was about for know how in the world they can say unless you committed a felony. You’re the election for President of the United this to the American people with a here unlawfully, you commit a felony States. straight face and believe that there’s or you commit a combination of three As I listened to that, it was about going to be border security in exchange mysterious misdemeanors, that hap- jobs and the economy. If you would put for law enforcement. It’s not going to pens to qualify you for removal pro- jobs and the economy in quotes and happen, Mr. Speaker. It didn’t happen ceedings. Those are exemptions that then put Barack Obama’s name in the in 1986, one of only two times that Ron- are part of it. They claim that they search engine of Google, or if you ald Reagan let me down. will enforce the law on that. would put jobs and the economy in But in 1986, the promise was this: The balance of it is if you cross the quotes and then put Romney or Mitt We had about a million people in the border illegally and come into the there in the search engine of Google country illegally. Actually, it started United States, that is a crime, Mr. and send that off, you’re going to get at 700,000 to 800,000. That sounds like a Speaker. If you overstay your visa, hundreds of thousands of hits alto- minuscule number today. So roughly a which is about, let’s say, a number that gether because that was the topic of million people, and debate raged in the approaches 40 percent of those who are the election last November 6, jobs and House and the Senate. I believed all

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I believed all along that they believe, so that they could provide for today, even if someone is in jail, and would understand that if they grant open borders, which was the intention they are essentially handcuffed from amnesty, they would get more of the Teddy Kennedys and others at doing their job, and there is a legaliza- lawbreakers, more illegal border cross- the time. They undermined the en- tion of the people that came into the ers, a less manageable situation than forcement effort politically. And they United States before December 31, 2011, the one that they had in 1986. undermined it in the courts, and they and an invitation to those who have But the argument for clemency, for undermined it culturally, and they since been removed to come back amnesty prevailed in the House and the began to convert the people who came again, and no prospect that they’re Senate. But I believe that Ronald here illegally into a victims’ group. going to enforce the law against those Reagan would understand the prin- If you understand the politics of who come in after December 31, 2011, ciples of rule of law clearly enough and victimology, you understand that there that makes it, Mr. Speaker, the always the long-term implications of such an is a certain amount of sainthood that is, always was, and always will be Am- act of amnesty in 1986 clearly enough gets attached to these victims, for peo- nesty Act. that he would take the authority that ple that are in victims’ groups. That I use a little bit of, let me say, li- was vested in him and the United conversion has been taking place since cense here to speak of it this way: al- States Congress to veto that legisla- probably before 1986, but I remember it ways is, always was, and always will tion and require the Congress to pass from that point forward. be. If you is in America, you gets to amnesty by a two-thirds majority in What Ronald Reagan learned and stay. If you was in America, you gets the House and Senate and overturn his what today his Attorney General at the to come back. And if you will be in veto. I don’t believe they could have time, Attorney General Ed Meese America, you also get to stay. done that in 1986. knows and has three times written This is the perpetual and retroactive I believed Ronald Reagan would veto about, and what another member of the Amnesty Act. It’s perpetual; it goes on the Amnesty Act in 1986. Instead, to Reagan administration, Gary Bauer, forever. You could never enforce immi- my great disappointment, he signed it. knows and has spoken openly of is that gration law again. You could never say The calculation at the time was, if we if you grant amnesty, if you suspend to people, Well, you came here after just grant amnesty to these million the rule of law and you tell people, our deadline; now we’re going to en- people, we’re going to get full coopera- We’re not going to enforce the law force the law. tion to enforce the border and never against you, continue to break it, Not after you flow 11 million or 22 again will there be another Amnesty you’ll get more law breakers. million or 33 million people into this Act—never again. This was the Am- More law breakers means more law- country, or a number that results from nesty Act to end all Amnesty Acts. It lessness, and more lawlessness erodes this that may perhaps be over 50 mil- was going to be law enforcement from the rule of law. And when they bring a lion people over time. Numbers USA’s that point forward. The border was bill to the Senate that legalizes, aside number is 33 million people that get le- going to be secured. There would be a from the felons, the three mysterious galized as an effect of the legislation in clear prohibition on hiring illegal em- misdemeanor committers, aside from the Senate. ployees. They were going to shut off that, it legalizes everybody here in the Robert Rector’s study at the Herit- the jobs magnet, and they created the United States that’s here illegally. Not age Foundation—and both of them, by I–9 form, the I–9 form which requires only that, they send an invitation by the way, did stellar work yesterday. an employer to fill out the form, make the bill out to anybody that has been His study only contemplates 11.5 mil- sure that you have the documentation, deported in the past that says: Re- lion, which is the lowest number, the the identification, and make sure that apply. Come back into the United reduced number, the boiled-down num- you have all of the ‘‘I’s’’ dotted and the States. We really didn’t mean it. ber of those we know are here that es- ‘‘T’s’’ crossed on the I–9 form because a They say if you came here after De- sentially reflects off the United States Federal agent is going to come inspect cember 31, 2011, you’re not going to be census. That’s the people that admit your paperwork. An INS agent would exempted by this Amnesty Act that is they’re here when you ask them, Are come and inspect your paperwork. coming through the Senate, so presum- you here illegally? A number approach- I did all of those things as carefully ably they are going to enforce the law ing 11 million said, Yes, I am. I confess. as I could. I had a fear that I would slip against those who came here after De- We know that in the ’86 Amnesty Act up and not meet the standard, Mr. cember 31, 2011. that was roughly a million people an- Speaker. And so we very carefully doc- Mr. Speaker, they’re not going to do ticipated. It became over 3 million peo- umented our job applicants in my con- that. If they were going to do that, you ple. So use the three-to-one multiplier. struction company to make sure that would see a news story about somebody That does reflect pretty close. It’s not we were in compliance with the law, all who was put back and the condition the formula used by Numbers USA. the while expecting that that INS they were in before they broke the law That formula is a careful formula that agent was just around the corner tak- that came here after December 31, 2011. calculates family unification and the ing a look at the paperwork of our No, ICE is prohibited from enforcing record we have of human activity on competition or our neighboring busi- the law against people who fit these how they react to the legislative ness. Of course, they never showed up definitions, and I asked that specific changes that take place. to check my paperwork. I’m not dis- question of the president of the ICE But if the formula was 1 million in appointed by that. I’m disappointed union before the Judiciary Committee ’86, it became 3 million because of doc- that they didn’t show up to check the under oath. And he said, If they’re in ument fraud and other reasons. Those paperwork of thousands of employers jail, I can’t put them in removal pro- who gamed the system, those who with millions of employees. ceedings. came in before the Amnesty Act was The enforcement didn’t really hap- Even if they’re in jail, he can’t go signed, or even after the Amnesty Act pen. It didn’t happen in shutting off into jail and say, Listen, I’m required was signed, to take part in that and the jobs magnet. The litigation began. to put you in removal proceedings. I’m lied about when they came here, the 1 The ACLU began litigating, as did going to take you back to the port of million became 3 million. It doesn’t other organizations. They began to entry. He can’t do that. stretch my imagination to see the 11 argue, You’re requiring an employer to Who’s in handcuffs now? ICE, the million become 33 million. That seems make a judgment call when he looks at Border Patrol, in handcuffs today. to me to match up in two different the documents and the picture and the They can’t enforce the law the way it’s types of formulas.

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That’s true for gold and American people are still asking, where are the jobs? Clear enough. their children to the systems that we oil and platinum and soybeans and have, the health care system, the edu- labor. Well, I could not disagree more cation system we have, the public secu- And because we have an oversupply strongly with Speaker BOEHNER. Presi- rity systems we have? of unskilled labor, and underskilled dential action to protect the climate Do we want to put them in a place labor is why we have such low wages and future generations is absolutely es- where their tax return makes them eli- and benefits at low- and unskilled sential. The House is controlled by gible for the Earned Income Tax Cred- labor. The highest unemployment’s in leaders who deny the science and are it, so that all of their children that the lowest of skills. recklessly ignoring the risks of a rap- may not live in the United States even And yet people in this Congress think idly changing climate. at the time, they get a check from the you have to expand the low-skilled The House has become the last refuge Federal Treasury for that? labor numbers, bring people in, low- of the Flat Earth Society. That is why Do we want to see this pour out to and unskilled, Senate version of the the President must act, using his exist- where the number that came from Rob- bill, seven unskilled people and under- ing authorities under the law. ert Rector’s study is that, on average, educated people, for every one that’s The Speaker’s assertion that acting the people that would be included in going to be able to pay their going rate to reduce emissions will hurt the econ- this amnesty act in the Senate, over on what it costs to sustain them in so- omy is absolutely wrong. We need to the course of the time they would live ciety. act to lead the world in the clean en- in the United States, the average For every person that would come in ergy economy of the future. If we don’t comes in at 34 years old, and a 34-year under the Senate bill, that would pay act, initiative, leadership, and eco- old, by the time they reach that age, as much or more in taxes as they draw nomic growth will go to countries that will live to the age of about 84. That’s down in government benefits, there are do. 50 years in the United States. That’s a seven who will not be able to do that. Now, I’ve been in Congress for over net cost to the taxpayer of $580,000 per The universe of those in the 11 mil- three decades. I worked on the Clean person. lion people cannot sustain themselves Air Act reauthorization of 1990. I re- Do we want to really write a check or in this society that we have, not in a member the testimony we received in borrow the money from the Chinese to single year of their projected existence the 1980s about how, if we tried to do fund that? in this culture, in this society, in this more in the environmental area, we Do we need that many more people in economy. So why would we do that? would lose our jobs and our economy the United States doing the work they Why, if we need more people to pull would be set back. We would face an- say Americans won’t do, for a price of on the oars, would we allow 100 million other depression. $580,000 per person? Americans, that are of working age and Well, on a bipartisan basis, we adopt- Do we want to rent cheap labor for simply not in the work force, to sit up ed the Clean Air Act. We had the bill the price of $12,000 a year? That’s what there in steerage, while we bring people sponsored and signed by President the math works out to. I think it’s on board to pull the oars and wait on George H.W. Bush, and that legislation $11,600 a year. the people sitting in steerage? led to accomplishments of reducing air Do we really want to—do the tax- That defies any kind of rational pollution in some of our heavily pol- payers care that much about having logic, Mr. Speaker. luted urban areas, including my own somebody to cut the grass and some- So to destroy the rule of law, to, I’ll home of Los Angeles. body to weed the garden and somebody say, subsidize a non-work ethic, and We were able to stop the ravages of to do all this work that they claim now it turns into three generations of acid rain, which were causing destruc- Americans won’t do? Americans that are drawing down some tion of our forests and rivers and ponds By the way, I don’t think anybody in of the 80 different means-tested welfare in the Northeast and in Canada. We this Congress can find work that I programs, it is foolish for us to con- were able to do something about toxic haven’t been willing to do, and I think sider such a proposal. And I’m hopeful pollution, which was causing birth de- my sons would certainly reinforce that that the good sense of the American fects and cancer in large numbers of statement. They remind me that people can do something about the people who lived near industrial facili- they’ve been out in 126-degree heat spell that has been cast over too many ties. And we were able to get legisla- index and poured concrete on these Republicans in the House and the Sen- tion passed and moved forward to stop days, and they’ve been driving sheet ate. the destruction of the upper ozone of piling across the swamp at 60 below And so, Mr. Speaker, I urge the our planet. wind chill. They tell me that’s a 186 de- American people to save this Congress We accomplished these goals because grees temperature change, and no spe- from themselves and restore the rule of we didn’t pay attention to the cies on the planet could survive what law. naysayers who told us our economy they went through growing up in our I yield back the balance of my time. would be ruined, we would lose jobs, we family. And I say, well, no species f should forget about a healthy environ- other than my sons. And I remind them ment, we should forget about pristine that, and me too, guys. CLIMATE CHANGE air in our national parks. We did work like that in the heat, in The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under Luckily, we had leadership, from Re- the cold, in the rain and the snow. We the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- publicans and Democrats, to do some- did work underground. We do the sani- uary 3, 2013, the Chair recognizes the thing, and we can now talk about the tary sewer work. We do earth work. We gentleman from California (Mr. WAX- great accomplishments that we do all kinds of things. We do demoli- MAN) for 30 minutes. achieved. And at the same time, we tion. All of the work that they say Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, today created more jobs. We created more in- Americans won’t do, we’ve done a the Speaker of the House, not the pre- dustries. We created new technological whole lot of that and will do more. siding officer at the moment, but the developments. No one’s too proud to do work in this Speaker of the House, JOHN BOEHNER, But let me talk about why the Presi- country. We’re just sometimes not made some irresponsible remarks dent needs to act on this question of willing to do work for the price that’s about climate change. He was asked climate change. On Monday, the Inter- offered. And we know that free enter- about the reports that the President is national Energy Agency, IEA, released

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