Minutes. Mrs. Lowey im pleased to yield one minute to the gentlewoman from california, the speaker of the house, ms. Pelosi. Ms. Pelosi i thank the gentlewoman for yielding. T me first salute chairwoman lowey, congresswoman delauro and Ranking Member for their good faith work on a strong bill that protects vulnerable children, keeps america safe and honors our values. Madam speaker, when people ask me what are the three most important issues facing the congress, i always say the same thing, children, children, children. Today, we have the opportunity to help the children. We are ensuring that children have food, cloothing, shelter and medical care. We are providing access to Legal Assistance and protecting families because families belong together. Right now, children need their families. Right now little children are enduring trauma and care. Many are living in squal or and sleeping on the cold grounds. Kids are watching over infants because there is no one else there to care for them. As one little girl caring for two kids, i need comfort, too. But im a child, too. Today, we found that the administration is sending children back to a station in clint, texas and those children had been removed after enduring weeks without a shower or changing clothes. When visiting these children, one lawyer reported, the children are locked in their cells and said they cant bring their cells to play because they are trying to stay alive. Last week the Trump Department of justice argued in court that the government should not have to provide children with soap, toothbrushes or beds. This is child abuse. It is an atrocity that violates every value we have not only as americans but as moral beings, today sadly our values are being undermined by the president s policies that brings heartbreak and horror. This legislation is a vote today. This is a vote against the cruel attitude towards children in this administration. T does not fund the failed policies. Humane it secures limits on how to the money is spent and how the administration treats children. And it creates strong oversight by congress so we can protect children and ensure this crisis never occurs he again the. This legislation addresses the route causes. It reverses the administrations senseless decision to block funds for the northern triangle countries where many of these refugees are coming from and the funding improves Border Security and prevents human smuggling and drug trafficking. In addition to combatting corruption and reducing poverty. At is what the bill is all about. A trip led to the northern triangle they saw the effecttive use of those funds and while they were there, exercising oversight and the effective use of those funds at that very moment, the president reversed the policy. 200 we are launching a million Pilot Initiative to improve the customs and Border ProtectionProcessing System based on a proposal from the u. N. High commissioner for refugees. A while back when there was another muslim ban, when that happened, we were not in the majority, but we did have a hearing where many people came, National Security experts, diplomats, people from faithbased organizations to object to the president s muslim ban and at that time, representatives of the a advantage leg Call Community of erica but a representative stated, americas Refugee Resettlement program is the own jewel of americas humanitarianism. We must strengthen and protect this pillar of our democracy. Families belong together. As we face the challenges presented by the president s policies, we must help immigrants know their rights. Immigrants must know their rights. Families belong together. Every member of this body has a sacred moral obligation to protect the human rights and the lives of vulnerable families no matter who they are. They are all of gods children and they have a spark of difficult vin ti that we must respect as we view these children and our responsibilities to them. I urge a strong bipartisan vote for the children, the children, the children. And i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore does he gentlelady reserve . Mrs. Lowey madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized. Mrs. Lowey i rise in support of this supplemental to care for the increased number of migrants crossing the southern border. A matter of days, the department of health and Human Services and department of Homeland Security will run out of money to care for children and families at the border who are already held in deplorable, chaotic conditions, often without needed medical care or even soap and toothbrushes. Children go without showers or clean clothes for weeks. Seven and eight year olds care for infants they dont know where toddlers go without diapers. This is heartbreaking and on the richest country on earth, unacceptable. This bill has 4. 5 billion for basic human needs and better human care. 200 million for a multiagency Processing CenterPilot Program with nonprofits as well as 60 million to assist local entities and nonprofits serving the influx of migrants. The president s cruel immigration policies that tear apart families and terrorize communities demand the stringent safeguards in this bill to ensure these funds are used for humanitarian needs only. Not for immigration raids, not tention beds, not a border wall. This bill would better protect migrants rights and dignity with stronger requirements the care of unaccompanied children including standards for medical are and medical emergencies, nutrition, hygiene and facilities and personnel training. Strict conditions on facilities that house children would mandate requirements in the flores settlement, sponsors and potential sponsors would be safeguarded from d. H. S. Immigration enforcement based on information collected by h. H. S. During this sponsor vetting process. Madam speaker, we cannot be complicit in the crisis and suffering at the border. I urge support for this legislation and reserve the alance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from texas. Ms. Fwranger i claim such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized. Ms. Granger almost two months ago, the administration sounded the alarm about the crisis at our southwest border and told the Congress Additional funds were badly needed. Now two months later, were here. We have this border supplemental appropriations bill, h. R. 3401, that falls terribly short and will only further delay addressing the problem. I oppose this bill in its current form. Hundreds of thousands of people have arrived at the border this year. Some are coming through points of entry and many are crossing through the desert or the rio grand. Men and women across agencies and departments have been working together to try to respond to the overwhelming surge of people coming to the border illegally. For the past three months, totaling over 100,000 people per month. Last month, topped that. 144,000 men women and children from 51 countries. Our agents and officers, our volunteers our nongovernmental organizations are dealing with nearly 20,000 people in a space design forward fraction of that. Theyre dealing with the increasingly hot summer heat and theyre dealing with migrants with grave medical conditions. This is a real crisis and we need a bill that provides for all the agencies that are involved in responding, and its listening overdue. The bill before us does not provide immigration and Customs Enforcement. The department of defense or the immigration courts with the funds they need. In addition, the bill includes provegs provisions tying the administrations hands, including restrictions on foreign aid to Central American countries and stopping h h. S. From changing policies that could protect unaccompanied children. Were out of time and some of our agencies are spending money they dont have because they have mustpay bills for contracts for food and shelter and transportation and medical care. I want everyone to be very aware of what theyre dealing with. People are waiting in terrible conditions in the desert in summers here. Children are sleeping on the ground and need to be moved to shelters or homes. We need doctors and pediatricians. We need care givers. We need immigration courts to rule in a timely manner. We should not force those who have submitted claims for asylum and other forms of relief to wait any longer. The more time we spend on partisan measures, the longer it will be before help arrives to those who desperately need it. We need to act now on a bipartisan solution and i urge my colleagues to reject this bill that is partisan and dangerous. I reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york. Mrs. Lowey madam speaker, im delighted to yield four minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from connecticut, the outstanding chair of the labor, health, Human Services, and education subcommittee, ms. Delawyer rowe. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized for our minutes. Ms. Delawyer rowe madam speaker, we face a humanitarian crisis at our southern border and we face a crisis of care. Six children have died in u. S. Custody in the last nine months. In the 10 previous years, not one child died. These lost, scared, vulnerable young people are so distraught, in what the miami herald called and i quote, prisonlike facilities, that they are selfharming. It break ours heart and it must steel our conviction for action tonight. We have been acting. The 2020 laborhhs propings bill we strengthened protectioners in unaccompanied children program. These include Funding Legal services, blocking the administrations memorandum of greement that had h. H. S. Every roans youly prioritizing Immigration Enforcement over care for kids. And scaring sponsors from coming forward. And requiring the administration to abide by the protections that are guarantees under the standards of care of the flores agreement. That is what weve done. This is what we are doing now. This emergency supplemental provides funding for the housing of children. It implements protections for them. It enacts mechanisms to ensure their safe and expeditious placement with sponsors. We provide legal service, child advocates, post relief service, additional federal field specialists, Case Management personnel to identify potential family sponsors and to discharge children to them as quickly as possible. The emergency supplemental provides a full amount of 2. 9 billion. Requested by the administration. The full amount. These funds enable the department to expand its network of shelters to care for children. So we do provide the funds. However, we do not provide a blank check because a blank check could be licensed to continue the abuses that we uncovered. All of us were shocked and outraged last year at the administrations intentional family separation policy. Adding to the number of children that h. H. S. Had to care for and doing so with no plan to reunify these families. The tragedy is, some children will never be reunited with their families and that is on this administrations watch. Along with these funds this bill includes new and necessary pr texts. They redirect h. H. S. To its core mission which is to be caring for children, placing them in a safe environment with sponsors. This bill gives priority to small and medium scale shelters wherever possible and for the First Time Ever it requires currently exempt influx facilities to meet the minimum standards of care required by the flores settlement. If these grantees do not comply, their contracts are revoked. The bill limits the number of days children can spend an influx shelter. A temporary facility should not become a nearpermanent way station. The bill requires h. H. S. To maintain the directive that have been successfully accelerating the placement of children. And finally the bill enhances transparency prork sides adequate safeguards against the misuse of frunds, prohibits funds from being transferred outside h. H. S. It does not give the second retear discretion to decide which flores protections should apply to influx shelters and the bill requires h. H. S. To report to the congress within 24 hours if a child dies in h. H. S. Custody. Not one member in this body would volunteer his or her child or grandchild to be detained in these facilities. Not one of us would choose to expose our youngsters to these conditions. So we must not allow any children to continue to suffer, nor shall we miss the opportunity to help. Thank you. President Franklin Roosevelt once said, quoting the poet dante, and i quote, divine justice weighs the sin os the coldblooded and the sins of the warm hearted in different scales. A ter the occasional fall of government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. We are not indifferent. We should not be indifferent. Do not let us become frozen. I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, let us pass this emergency supplemental bill because the lives of children are at stake and we should not play fast and loose with their lives when we have the power to do something, to make a difference, and to protect these children and make sure they get to a safe haven and a safe landing. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from texas. Ms. Granger i yield five minutes to the gentleman from tennessee, mr. Fleischmann. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Fleischmann thank you, madam speaker. I thank you, Ranking Member granger. As Ranking Member of the Homeland Security subcommittee on appropriations, i know all too well the challenges we are facing on the border. I have the utmost respect for chairwoman roybalallard and her work to address these issues and work with all the members of the subcommittee. At the time we crafted the fiscal year 2019 regular appropriations bill, we could not have predicted the sheer mass of people pouring across the border this spring and summer. But this fiscal year, customs and Border Patrol have already encountered almost 700,000 people. Thats double the amount in all the Previous Fiscal Year and we still have three months to go. Further, we are not talking about separating children. We are talking about children coming to this country without parents who can care for them. We cant just let kids wander the streets. We need to ensure that h. H. S. Has the space and the capacity to find sponsors or suitable homes for these kids. D. H. S. Cannot wait another month for funds. And d. H. S. Definitely cannot wait on health and Human Services to receive more funds. We need a complete border supplemental bill providing relief and resources for all agencies working at the border and within the country to work through the number of migrants coming across the southern border. That includes immigration and Customs Enforcement and that also includes the department of defense. Further, we need a supplemental bill that does not throw up roadblocks to implementing the aid we are trying to deliver. I urge the house to instead take up a more bipartisan bill that would also pass the senate and get signed by the president on friday. Time is of the essence. We need to work with the senate and the president to get a bill enacted. Madam speaker, i urge a no vote on this bill. Lets take up a bill that could deliver the humanitarian aid by the end of this week. Thank you, madam speaker, and i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york. Mrs. Lowey madam speaker, im pleased to yield four minutes to the outstanding gentlewoman from california, the chairwoman of the Homeland Security subcommittee, ms. Roybalallard. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized for four minutes. Ms. Roybalallard i rise in strong support of h. R. 3401, we have all seen the tragic pictures of immigrants held in extremely overcrowded c. B. P. Facilities never designed to hold families and tender age children. I and many colleagues have been to the border and witnessed firsthand the horrific, indisputably untenable and intolerable conditions. This bill addresses this humanitarian crisis and sets forth strong oversight provisions and requirements to ensure the basic humane care of migrants in custody especially the children. Funding for the department of Homeland Security totals nearly 1. 5 billion, 150 million above the Senate Committee bill. This crucial funding will directly address the humanitarian crises at the border by supporting temporary c. B. P. Holding facilities to relieve the dangerous overcrowding and by providing medical and transportation support, blankets, food, water and other consumeables for migrants. Combined with funding in title 3 for unaccompanied children, the bill also provides resources needed to reduce time in c. B. P. Custody and to ensure their facilities are safe, sanitary, and humane. The bill also includes 200 million for an innovative multiagency Pilot Program to better address the medical and legal needs of families and unaccompanied children. It will also improve the departments efficiency in migrant processing without compromising migrant legal protections. This pilot will collate customs and Border Protection, immigration and Customs Enforcement, citizenship and immigration services, the office of Refugee Resettlement, and nonprofit humanitarian organizations into a single facility. This will reduce overall processing time, provide consistent medical assessments and treatments, and offer legal orientation much earlier. Nonprofit organizations will provide assessments of migrants needs and vulnerabilities and help families transition to local shelters or alternatives to detentions. The bill the bill also includes 60 million to help nonprofits amend local jurisdictions continue their efforts to provide assistance to migrants relief from d. H. S. Custody. Release from d. H. S. Huftky. The office of Refugee Resettlement is nearly out of money. Without Additional Resources for sheltering capacity, children will continue to be held for weeks or longer in illequipped c. B. P. Holding facilities never intended to hold children for more than a few hours. Let me be clear, without passage of this bill, the only alternative is the senate bill which has insufficient oversight provisions and leaves the door open for further abusive behavior by the administration. H. R. 3401 takes a constructive, balanced approach with the right mix of funding and oversight. Madam speaker, congress simply cannot adjourn without providing the funding needed to address the humanitarian crisis and trauma of migrants and their children at the border. The only way to ensure the inclusion of strong oversight, compliance requirements and priorities in the emergency supplemental package is to pass h. R. 3041. I urge my colleagues to vote yes on this supplemental and i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from texas. Ms. Granger i yield five minutes to the gentleman from florida, mr. Rutherford. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. Mr. Rutherford thank you, madam speaker. I thank the Ranking Member for yielding and, madam speaker, i am truly saddened this evening to rise in opposition to what should be a humanitarian assistance bill for those who are suffering at our southern border. But for over 50 days, my republican colleagues have been begging the house majority, begging to deliver badly needed relief to our agencies on the southern border who are overwhelmed by a Record Number of migrants. For over 50 days the majority has remained silent while our agency ran out of resources and Migrant Children suffered, for lack of sufficient resources to properly care for them. The speaker talked about keeping america safe. Hardly. She said to vote for the children, the children, the children. At the same time asking us to vote for a bill that withholds resources from the very agencies that are responsible for the care, custody and control of those two are suffering at the border. Now, in response to, and im really glad, madam speaker, that finally my colleagues across the aisle have recognized that this is a there is a crisis at the southern border, it is not a manufactured crisis as they claimed it was for over two months. This bill does nothing to solve that crisis. Its nothing more than a political messaging bill for a largescale Misinformation Campaign about that humanitarian crisis. Which my colleagues across the aisle, again, once called a manufactured crisis. Specifically in this bill, this bill restricts d. H. S. From sending additional employees to the southern border. Congress is now going to tell d. H. S. How to deploy their staffing. Amazing. It withholds overtime funds for exhausted officers. It provides money listen to this. It provides money to inspect d. H. S. But provides nothing, nt use a dime, to investigate human trafficking. When we know that these children that are suffering are being trafficked across that southern border, not a dime to go after those traffickers. I. C. E. Has asked for 54,000 beds to handle this surge and alleviate the overcrowding. But the majority only gives them, in this bill and the previous underlying bill, bill in appropriations, 34,000 beds, not 54,000 that they asked for, 34,000. Nd another 7,000 contingent. So, the speaker and the majority listened to they want to listen to the u. N. High command on refugees, but they do not want to listen to our own h. S. Agencies that are on that border responsible for care, custody and control of those individuals. And finally, theres nothing, theres no funding for extra judges to help process more than 100,000 migrants per month. We need is proper er assistance, not political messaging. I spent my entire career, adult career, in Law Enforcement. I know that giving money with burdensom strings is not leadership. And its not the way to get things done. You have to allow the folks on the ground the flexibility to do their jobs. Or we are simply wasting taxpayers hardearned minute, and more importantly, wasting precious time. We have wasted two months as the situation at this southern rder has only worsened. I can assure you that the agents on the ground have a better idea of whats needed to be done than washington u. N. Crats or the commission. Unfortunately there are many in this legislative body who despise our president so much that theyre willing to suffocate our agencies with inadequate funding d regulations that endanger the afety of both migran and our surrounding communities. And yet theyre not just poking the president in theye. Withhis bill they are impairing our d. H. S. Men and women on the ground who are trying desperately, desperately to the speaker pro tpore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. Mr. Rutherford who are trying desperately to manage this humanitarian crisis at the border. Theyre poking them in the eye also. Our i. C. E. , d. H. S. And h. H. S. Employees provide care for every single man, woman and child that crosses into our country. They deserve our support. What is needed is the resources to do their jobs effectively and this bill does not provide that. Its frustrating to listen. So with that, madam speaker, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york. Mrs. Lowey madam speaker, i am very pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from new york, the distinguished chairman of the commerce, justice, science subcommittee, mr. Serrano. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Serrano thank you, madam chair. Were now in the midst of a humanitarian crisis at the border. Created by the policies of the Trump Administration. Like many of you, i have been shocked by the conditions at our border stations and the lack of basic services and necessities available to migrant families, and especially to minors. This crisis has been aggravated by the antiimmigration policies of this president. He has once again created a disaster that undermines our nations standing in the world and our basic american values. No one should doubt why we are here today. But the question for me here is not who is at fault but rather, how do we as a body, how do we as a party respond . Because we have a responsibility to these children now. We have an obligation to these families now. They cannot wait. That is what this bill does. It provides the resources to alleviate the crisis. It ensures that we have the money to provide migrants, especially minors, with the shelter, food, medicine and Legal Services that they need. The funding in this bill is not a blank check, however. The legislation includes numerous conditions, to ensure this money is used for its intended purposes, to make sure that individuals are receiving the care and services they need and to prevent the administration from creating further chaos and harm. This bill takes the right steps to address the crisis and to stop what the administration is doing. I urge my colleagues to support this bill. If we cry out against the crisis, then we have a responsibility to provide the funds to alleviate it. The bill does just that. I urge your support. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentlelady from texas. Ms. Granger i yield one minute to the gentleman from california, mr. Mccarthy. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Mccarthy i thank the gentlelady for yielding. Madam speaker, its been 56 days since the Trump Administration asked for emergency funding to address the humanitarian crisis at our southern border. 56 days. The New York Times gave two editorials, not one, but two. And mexico has now is now sending 15,000 troops to the southern border. But democrats, madam speaker, have rejected a bill to provide the aid that is needed, not once, not twice, not even 10 times, but 18 times. Madam speaker, i was shocked i actually heard from someone on the other side of the aisle say there was a crisis. I guess after 56 days they read some of those editorials. Now after weeks of doing nothing and denying that a crisis exists, theyre offering legislation that is misguided and is purely political. Theyre once again taking what should be a bipartisan issue and inserting partisan poison pills. I would say i would be shocked but this isnt the only issue theyve done that this year. Madam speaker, they took a bill that had 100 vote from republicans and democrats dealing with prescription drugs , and before it got through the speakers office, madam speaker, it became political. A poison pill. They took a bill that was in ways and means that got every republican and every democrat to vote for it before, again, came to the floor, another poison pill. So i guess we might have to get used to this. But the American Public should not. You see, madam speaker, that isnt how its being used on the other side of this building. You see, on the senate they actually took up this issue. Hey passed it out of committee 301. I know you might be shocked because i said that went through committee. I know you might be shocked because it said i said it was bipartisan. I know you might be shocked because they actually let the senators read the bill. You know, madam speaker, were on this floor being sworn in, a lot of promises made. A lot of promises broken. You see, there was a rule change. 72 hours. It actually marked the number of hours. Last night i watched the rules committee. They were going to come before the rules committee with the bill that we did not see in committee. But you know what, they couldnt get the votes. So we had to say no to the rules committee. Theyll come back at 10 00. So i eagerly waited at 10 00, no, we could not come back. Its going to be at 11 00. Eagerly waited for 11 00. Did not happen. But luckily, politically they got in the back of the room and they were able to buy off some more, madam speaker, in a political nature and rush something to the floor. I wondered if they were going to keep that rule that they championed so hard about 72 hours. Well, i dont know, maybe five equals 72. Im not sure what math they keep nowadays. But lets talk about how they make this problem even worse. Because im not sure anybodys read the bill. Im not sure even those on the other side know whats in it. Heres how its worse. Departments of Homeland Security and health and Human Services cannot share information about the sponsors of children. Think about that for one moment. Theyre making sure two democratics cannot share information within their own government. Now, this is necessary to ensure that children are not placed with human traffickers or with predators. Maybe if you had a little time, maybe if you didnt care about politics, youd allow a little sharing of information for the children. Organizations like immigration and Customs Enforcement and the department of justice are underfunded. Requests for pay and overtime costs for Border Patrol agents are denied. Think about that. In the last month, 144,000 people were apprehended coming across the border illegally. Unbelievable numbers. Have not seen that in decades. So what do the democrats do . Deny overtime. Deny the ability for those erving us the ability to work. And Immigration Judges do not get the resources they needed for additional staff or ourtroom space or equipment. America is cauntry that believes in the rule of law. But i guess on this floor thats not the case. You want to deny it. Now i wonder that maybe, madam speaker, on the other side they say its a rush to judgment, such a big bill, i didnt get to read it. Earlier today everyone in this chamber had the ability to vote for more funding for judges, just to deal with this crisis. Because i have heard, madam speaker, on the other side of the aisle you now use the word crisis. It only took 56 days. But, lo and behold when they had that moment, not to be confused, not to have that big bill but only that subject, every single democrat on the other side of the aisle except seven said no. So you made sure you put it in this political bill as well. Deny overtime in a crisis because you said it was a crisis but make sure nobody can work. Off crisis but make sure, madam speaker that we cant have the judges down there, somehow i guess maybe you dont believe in the rule of law. Additional funding to investigate human trafficers who you know are smuggling these children across the border is not included. Maybe thats why you want to rush this bill to the floor. Maybe thats why you dont want to give people an opportunity to read it. Because how will you answer that . How will you answer that ategsal funding to investigate human traffickers who are smuggling children you do not want to include. Did you read the editorials . Is it wrong to prevent the administration from improving the welfare of unaccompanied children as this bill will do . Democrats are far more interested in appearing to help children than in actually helping them. The pace and volume in which children have crossed our border over the last year have completely overwhelmed our existing resources. Madam speaker, youre making sure that nobody can work overtime during this. The first half of 2019, more than 56,000 unaccompanied children were apprehended by the customs and Border Protection. Thats a 74 increase from last year. And higher than the yearly totals for the last five. Luckily, someone finally realized thats a crisis but made sure theres no money to deal with it. Health and Human Service shelters are full and out of money, they cannot care for the children if congress does not pass solutions. H. H. S. Second he tear alexei sar sent us a clear message. He said, cant put a kid in a bed that does not exist. I cannot make a bed that congress does not fund. The fact that you would knowingly pass something that cause this is problem. Madam speaker, democrats are proud that their bill unlike the senate does not help our overstretched Law Enforcement officers. That is shameful. To take pride in making sure they do not get help. Border patrol agents now spend half of their time processing claims and caring for families in custody. Including making trips to hospitals and clinics. Theyre going beyond the call of duty every day and deserve our support whether you like them or not. The children who come across our southern border are to be properly cared for, madam speaker, democrats distrust of our national Law Enforcement officers must stop. Madam speaker, its been 56 days. But all democrats threw together was a sham bill more than three hours ago. It does not adequately fund what needed to be funded and would only make the crisis worse. Democrats are holding another vote late in the night on legislation that has no chance of becoming law. Madam speaker, we are better than this. Madam speaker, its not very far if you walk out these doors, you look down that hall, youll see the other chamber. You know what happens in the other chambers . They worked a bill through committee. They worked a bipartisan bill through committee. They condition run it to the floor in three hours. They didnt tell the rules committee to be ready and wait and wait and wait and then quickly after they cut a deal on one side. They took something that is critical. Something that is serious. And they acted that way. History will write about what happens on this floor. You make it emotional, you may be proud of your action but the question will be, will history be kind to you . The question will be when you voted that day, when you were sworn in, did you really mean 72 hours . When you stand on the floor, when you speak of a crisis and speak of caring for children, why would you not fund to make sure people are not trafficking them . When you spoke that there was a crisis on the border, why would you not fund the men and women who worked for our government . Why would you try to deny them vertime . Madam speaker, i know the fourth of july is soon. And i know members want to get out of here. But america is more than a country. America is an idea. An idea of selfgovepbance. An idea that the rule of law matters. This is not one of our finest moments. This is not one that im proud of. And was so ashamed, madam speaker, that just a few yards away theyre showing us an example. Are you rushing because youre afraid the senate is going to send us something thats bipartisan . Are you rushing because youre afraid the senate will actually make law . Theres a lot of things we can play political games with. But i never thought children would be the one we wanted to use. Were better than this. Theres a moment in time where you should stand up to your own leadership. Theres a moment in time that you should stand up for this country. Here is a moment in time and this is it. You dont have to follow and be rushed. You can say no. I watched what the senate has done. Party, Work Together own with the other side and actually come to a bill that could become law. Its not perfect. Its not what i would agrow with 100 . But you know what . I understand our government is designed to find compromise. I dont know what compromise is in this. I dont know who ever worked with another side. I dont know who rushed it to the rules Committee Just to do some managers amendment. Buzz you bought off a few people. This is not our finest moment by far. But madam speaker, there is a moment in time tt individuals can stand up. And im hoping that the moment is tonight. That we actually stand for this what this country believes and what well celebrate on the 4th of july. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore members are directed to instructed to direct their comments to the chair. The gentlelady from new york. Mrs. Lowey before i yield, i have Great Respect for the minority leader. But i ask mr. Minority leader f not this bill, what bill can provide aid to these children . Where is this senate bill, madam speaker . It is being held up by a republican senator from the same state as the majority lead er. Just let me finish then id be delighted to yield. So i want to ask again, this bill is being held up by a republican senator from the same state as the majority leader. So madam speaker, a no vote on this bill by any member will ensure that children remain in absolute squalor. My colleagues, stop hiding behind the senate bill that has not passed. Id be delighted to yield. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Mccarthy i appreciate that. I have spoken to the leader on the senate side and theyll bring it up tomorrow. And they passed this bill in committee, 301. I asked the i ask the gentlelady what would be the problem, i know weve only had three hours with this bill, why would we not take up the senate bill when it is bipartisan . Mrs. Lowey reclaiming my time, i want to yield three minutes to the distinguished gentleman from texas, a member of the appropriations committee, mr. Cuellar. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. Mr. Cuellar thank you, madam speaker. I thank the chairwoman for her leadership and the rest of the plopetors and staff who are working very hard to get this emergency bill on the floor. This bill is important. I live on the border. I dont just go visit the border. Ive been to the c. B. P. Processing facility, i have been to the nonprofit shelters for the imMigrant Children. I speak with the brave and compassionate men and women that are responsible for managing this humanitarian crisis. These men and women are my neighbors. And my neighbors, we have your back. They have expressed to me the urgency of getting this funding to enable them to protect the lives and safety of the migrants in their custody. But also we must also keep in mind the communities that are also providing the food and housing and the assistance that they need. Communities like laredo. Like mcallen, texas. Like san antonio and so many other communities across the southwest border. So we must pass this bill to provide that funding. But theres two particular provisions that i d want to mention also. One is the humanitarian reimbursements for communities and the other is the one stop Processing Centers that i requested and has been added on this particular bill itself. Let me talk about the humanitarian care. You have cities, you have counties, you have churches, you have nonprofits that are that have realy stepped up for many years. In fact they started this work in 2014 when the first wave of children started coming up here. And this bill includes 60 million for the direct reimbursement for local communities and nonprofits in texas, new mexico, arizona, and california. This funding will now use a different model. One we set up a new pot of money to make sure we get that funding. The second thing is, this model provides the direct funding for the local communities can now ask for this requested money. We had a different model back in 014 and unfortunately, you had governors like my own state of texas that fwt over 100 million and only provided 400,000 in the last four years. Five years. So this new funding will get the money directly to them. In fact this funding would now be distributed to the emergency food and shelter program, national board, and theyre required to distribute that money within 30 days after they this board gets this money. So we have to provide that assistance to them. Because again, they have to be reimbursed for food, water, medicine, medical supplies, temporary housing and transportation. So that assistance has to be provided to the local entity. The second provision is this one stop center. 200 million to make sure that this multiagency integrated migration process, we get this. 30 seconds. Again, the Border Patrol agency cannot handle this and therefore we need to th particular Processing Center. Again its a good bill. Why should we wait for the senate . Because we are the house of representatives, and we have a right to pass our own bill and not wait for the senate and for those reasons i say lets support this bill and with that, madam speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from texas. Ms. Granger i yield five minutes to the gentleman from georgia, mr. Collins. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. Mr. Collins yes, we have the right to pass a bill here in the house as the gentleman just said. But we have the right to pass a good bill. Not a political stunt. Why should we do this . I remember back in 2014, were getting nostalgic in this place. Tpwhack 2014 when the crisis began and actually the crisis, president obama said there was a crisis, all agreed. The majority stayed an extra week because we couldnt pass a bill. We finally crafted that bill, it was a bipartisan bill. It actually passed with both parties voting for it. The money was delivered. Because we knew it mattered. It was amazing to me just a few weeks on this floor, one of my colleagues came across, madam speaker, from texas, and said, we ct vote for the funding that the president is asking for. Give us some time to work it out and begin to work and make sure we get a good bill. Weve had a fivehour bill. Is tt time to work it out, madam speaker . Was that putting it all together and getting it right . Or was it lining up every Constituency Group and saying did we get a little piece of that so we can go back home and show were standing for something while at the same time, madam speaker, ignoring our Border Patrol agents, ignoring those who put their lives on the line every day. Heres the problem. You know, heres the prolem. Its amazing we ignore, its amazing to me i come to the floor tonight and i hear there is a crisis on the border. Amazing. Weve had progress. Lets all stand up and cheer. Theres a crisis on the border. Weve been saying it for months. The New York Times, the other media press saidt finally, and finally its through that now were saying theres a crisis on the border. I guess 132,000 people apprehended last month. 11,000 unaccompanied children. Nd 37,000 sgle adults. Apprehended. Maybe shows the time. The sheer volume increasing is amazing. But theres ways wean fix this. We can give money, we can throw money at a problem and attach so many restrictions to it, madam speaker. The unfortunate part, this aint funny. These are kids. These are families. That are being perversely brought here by immigration laws that are broken. I cant get anybody to talk about that. I cant get the fact that our settlement is forcinus into situations while our Border Patrol agents i. C. E. Doesnt have the beds. The majority leader pointed it out. You cant put people in beds thatont exist. But you also cant keep encouraging them to come across the border either. Which is exact what were doing. A decision that they know they can just get here. By the time that were in this bill this bill ll not let us look after the safety of those who areoming across because we cant share information. Theres no safety. Do not think youre voting for this bill thinking youre putting safety in here, because youre not. Because over 3,000 simple members, madam speaker, 3,000 family units have been found to be fraudulent. Theres a Common Knowledge that theyre borrowing, renting and buying children. Its there. But yet thats what we want to do. We wont fix our trafficking victs protection act and we wont work on asylum and incredible and credible fear. We offer this as an excuse. We offer this bill, something that wont fix it. It will throw problems in fa, it wont become law, we wont do this because its not working. We put every bit of what we want to do into not helping children, but actually putting restrictions on those who want to help. The c. B. P. Does not want to keep these children and these unaccompanied minors where they are of they dont want to where they are. They dont want to keep Asylum Seekers from cuba bottled up because they ct get their asylum here because theyre having to process other thats not their job. But this body and this job, we dont do ours. Because we simply keep overlooking the perverse incentive to come here. Because were encouraging them. In fact, this body two weeks ago made another incentive with a dreamer bill that has no hope of becoming law, but send as ear signal to Central America and anyone sends a clear sin nal signal to Central America and anyone else, get here and ull be fine. Get past the border and youll be fine. Its frustrating to know that a bill that is humanitarian in aid could not even come to the floor within the last 24 hours without having to be reitten an rewritten and rewritten because we didnt have enough of nonenforcement in there, we didnt have enough of other thgs in there that really doesnt make this appliable. You know, you just get to a certain point in time that h. R. 3401 even poses cnditions on the office of Refugee Resettlement to care for children, that they cant even operate temporary influx shelters as more and more unaccompanied aliens come into this country. They put seve limits on facilities such as beg licenseby the state, although these shelters have to be in federal Safety Standards and compliance, and theyre the only emergency situation we have right now. But wering nothinger ignoring tt were ignoring that because whave to please somebody. As we go forward, ive said before on the floor of this house, the speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. Ms. Granger 30 seconds. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. Mr. Collins some people are goingo come down here and vo a feel good about themselves, dam speaker. But ill tell you this and said it before from this we. What makes you feel gd does not heal you. Dont pretend, madam speaker, or anyone else who wants to vote for this, that youve solved something, that youe accomplished something. Until you take the situation and say, why are they comg, how do you xt and how do we give the men and women what they need to fix this . When we look at that, if you walk away feeling good about yourse, it may be a time tonight, madam speaker, before get to bed, look at yourself in the mirror and ask why. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york. Mrs. Lowey madam speaker, am delighted to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from ohio, the chaioman othe energy a water subcommittee, ms. Kaptu the speaker pro tempore the ntlelady is recognized for two minutes. Ms. Kaptur i want to thank our able chairwoman, nita lowey of new york, for yielding me this time. And i come to the floor to rge my colleagues to support this emergenc supplemental request. To ades the humanitarian crisis on our southern rder. Its aim is to save livesnd health. All people of conscious know it is urgently needed. These funds are vital to ensure the health and safety of these migrant refugees and Migrant Children. A Record Number of desperate families and unaccompanied children have crossed into the United States and our boardeder patrol, immigration enforce Border Patrol, Immigration Enforcement are simply overwhelmed. Jt this week we learned at four toddlers being held in a Border Patrol station in mcallen, texas, d to be spitalized because of dangerous neglect. The a. P. Reported last week that chdren ve been locked up in Border Patrol facilities for as many as 27 days without adequate food, water and sanitation, for heavens sake. This administration has failed to provide detned children with soap, tooth brushes, toothpaste, bedand doesnt have the resources to adequately address flu and lice epidemics in these facilities. Newseports say children are caring for other children in these facities. Five children have died in customsand borderatrol custody since late last year. The situation is getting worse. Our nation needs a comprehensive collin nenl continental diplomatic solution that acknowledges the economic and political conditions pushing Central American and mexican communities to the brink and the only option for desperation for these people is to flee north. We ed comprehensive Immigration Reform that respects all continental laborers and migrants. President john f. Kennedy had a name for it. He called it the alliance for progress. But today this congressust meet the immediate need to pride Financial Support to end t humanitarian nlect confronting these travelweary migrants. This 4ds. 5 billion ergency spending ll provide 4. 5 billion emergency spenwilling prode adequate supportor supportor k prioties, mical services, support serviced for unaccompanied children, aernatives to detention and refugee services. I request an addiol 15 seconds. I thank the gentlady. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized for 30 seconds. Ms. Kaptur most importantly thi spending correctly includs restriions to hold this Administration Accountable in how it spend taxpayer dollar in a capacity that protects the rights and digny of deeratpeople who happen to be migrants. I urge all my colleagues to support thisifesing supplemental. I want to thank lowey for working so hard to bring this bill to the floor. I yield my remaining time back to her. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. For what purpose does the gentlelady from texas rise . Ms. Granger i yield four minutes to the gentleman from alabama, mr. Rogers. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from alabama is recognized for four minutes. Rodgerodges mr. Rogers i thank my colleague from texas. I rise in strong opposition to this bill. For months republicans on and off the Homeland Security committee have been highlighting the grave humanitarian crisis at our southwest border. And pleading with House Democrats to take action. The democrats initial response was deny the crisis even existed. When that failed, they began to try to blame the president. The truth is theyve spent the past several months fighting amongst themselves on a way forward. Even as late as today, the speaker had to intervene to stop the radical left in her caucus from sinking the bill. Meanwhile, the crisis has worsened. 144,000 immigrants in may alone were detained. 622 increase over the same month in 2017. Innocent children are being exploited by human smugglers. Border patrol stations are overcrowded with thousands of migrants staying in poor conditions. These are in stations, Border PatrolProcessing Centers, that have a Maximum Capacity of 4,000 people. We have 20,000 people in these facilities. For eight weeks the House Republicans have been trying to move my legislation to provide 4. 5 billion in emergency aid requested by our president. But democrats have blocked my bill from consideration on 18 separate occasions. Instead they bring forward a bill today that isnt serious and has no chance of becoming law. To appease the radical left, this bill is stuffed with poison pills. For example, it includes nothing to stop innocent children from being exploited by human smugglers. Nothing to continue d. O. D. Assistance, which has been essential for managing the crisis. And drastic restrictions on the secretarys authority to surge personnel and assets to the border and update policies to improve conditions for Migrant Children. These poison pills will only exacerbate the crisis. They will ensure that dangerous catch and release policies continue unabated. Meanwhile, migrant families will continue to suffer at the hands of ruthless smugglers. Democrats had a real opportunity to work in a bipartisan manner to address this humanitarian crisis. Unfortunately once again they chose to appease the radical left and reject bipartisan consensus. I urge all members to vote against this bill. Then lets Work Together to craft a bipartisan border supplemental that can become law. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentlelady from new york. Mrs. Lowey madam speaker, im very pleased to yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from new york, the chairman of the democratic caucus, mr. Jeffries. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Jeffries thank you, madam chair. Theres a humanitarian crisis at the southern border that should shock the conscience of every single american. These are Migrant Children being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment by our government. This is not iran. This is not north korea. This is not venezuela. This is the United States of america. Shame on us. There are children who are without food. They are without medicine. They are without water. They are without soap. They are without diapers. They are without toothpaste. Shame on us. These are not alien children. They are gods children. This administration should stop using them as political pawns for some sick xenophobic game. Vote yes and lets begin the process of ending this humanitarian crisis now. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from texas. Ms. Granger i yield one minute to the gentleman from georgia, mr. Hice. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Hice thank you, madam speaker. I thank the Ranking Member. Weve been hearing for quite some time democrats saying republicans and democrats have not been coming to the table on this issue. What nonsense. For months we have watched democrats absolutely deny that there is a crisis. And i have actually on my desk a list, page after page after page of quotes from my colleagues who were denying a cries is he crisis at the border. Not only republicans for nearly 40 years, mind you, have been ringing the alarm on this issue. Weve been highlighting caravan after caravan after caravan coming to our southern border. Now in may we had 144,000 apprehended. Nearly 700,000 to date. That number expected to go well over a million. Do we have a humanitarian crisis at the border . Yes. Do we have a security border crisis . Yes. But this bill does not adequately even fund i. C. E. It does not pay overtime for border personnel. 15 seconds . Ms. Granger 15 seconds. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady yields 15 seconds. Mr. Hice it does not have any means to investigate human traffickers it. Lax funding for the department of justice traffickers. It lacks funding for department of justice immigration courts and it ties the hands of the president. Lets address this issue the way it ought to be addressed. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from texas. Ms. Granger i yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. Roy. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Roy i thank the gentlelady from texas and thank her for her leadership on this issue and dealing with this important legislation. Im always perplexed when listening to the arguments on this topic, that were not talking about the actual problem. So when were talking about the facilities that need to have more supplies and more dollars for support, i agree, i dont think anybody in this room disagrees at all. But nothing were going to do today is going to solve the problem. I have an exchange here with a group of Border Patrol agents who texted me to say about this legislation this does nothing but perpetuate the catch and release magnet. While there are some good pieces to the bill, why are we not increasing i. C. E. Beds . Why are we providing taxpayer funding to educate Border Crossers on the asylum process . Why do we keep provide mung to let people go who violate our immigration law. This provides more incentives for people to cross the border illegally. If this were to pass why would anyone stop crossing . This they said this is what i refer to as completing the human smuggling cycle. Cartels drop off people at our borders. U. A. C. s, family units, Border Patrol takes them and delivers them. Engages with n. G. O. s. N. G. O. s aid these folks who are here so they can reach family members in the United States waiting for them so the family members in the United States are the ones paying the cartels their smuggling fees. And the n. G. O. s are reimbursed and the whole process, its completing the entire cycle. This legislation will perpetuate the problem because were not actually going to address the situation with i. C. E. Beds. Were not going to do anything to stop the flow, and were going to empower the cartel who was operational control of our border. Full operational control of our border. If you talk to anyone on the border who knows whats going on. We should reject this legislation in favor of legislation that will solve the problem. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from new york. Mrs. Lowey im delighted to yield one minute to the distinguished from new york, mr. Espaillat. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for one mr. Espaillat i am troubled by the way we have treated those at the border, particularly children. I stand here tonight to say if by passing this emergency supplemental bill we will save one childs life, just one childs life, it is worth it and we should vet for it. We spoke about the speak about the money allocated in the budget but the only number important in this debate is the six children that have died at the border. We will continue to hold this Administration Accountable for its treatment of migrants, particularly young children. Madam speaker, every time we deny help to the triangle countries this crisis is aggravated. Every time we stop a mom and her children at the border and they have to go through the river and drawn, this crisis is worsened. Every time we deny children the basics, Human Services that they need this crisis becomes tragic. Madam speaker, i yield back my time. The speaker pro tempore who seeks time . The gentlelady from texas is recognized. Ms. Granger madam speaker, we must reject this bill today and develop a bipartisan solution to address the crisis at our border. Workers and children and care takers and Border Patrol have been waiting almost two months for the resources they immediate to do their jobs and receive our care. This bill turn ours backs on the people and ties the president s and ties the president s hands. I implore members to stop this and vote no on this measure. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady yields back. The gentlelady from new york is recognized. Mrs. Lowey madam speaker, i yield myself the balance of the time. The humanitarian crisis at the border demands action. This bill funds a compassionate response while doing our utmost to protect the rights and dignity of my grants. I urge my colleagues, join me, lets pass this bill, the complete guide to congress is now available. It has lots of details of the house and senate for the current session of congress. 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This afternoon, we would like to spend a few minutes reflecting first on what we heard this morning and some of the issues that were addressed by the candidates as we delve into what were calling next year as the perfect storm. Right . So the 2020 census, you all heard its coming, but there is also an election in 2020