folks here in north eastern pennsylvania, they want an adult in the room down there and i have promised to them that i would be that person. so you re also really distancing yourself from your party on the issue of immigration and i want to read something that you said to the times leader just last week, you said, quote, we have to have comprehensive immigration reform, secure borders, heavy fines and stricter penalties for offenders, i also favor building a wall where appropriate but not where mountain goats can t climb, what did you mean by that? right, one thing that i worked very hard on is trying to find places where we can save money in the federal government and one one enormous waste of money would be to build a wall from the rio grande to pacific ocean without regard expenses and we know there s places that
people don t cross, people wouldn t think of crossing in those places, so there s no way you want to build a wall, remember it s not just the expense of building the wall but it s also you have to appropriate the land, you have to condemn the land and pay the rancher or whoever fair market value for that piece of property. there s enormous expense so the people i realize people want a simple solution for everything but the truth is securing the border can be done without without a rio gande to pacific wall. there are places where a better barrier is appropriate but not the whole thing. let me ask you this, you re on appropriation s committee, if you re reelected, would you support pushing at least part of would you support pushing fund to go get at least part of the president s wall through? we ve already said that. there s bipartisan consensus on some money going to that but what we want is what we want
dana, explain why $7 billion is spent on other countries, on global warming. well, i would love to know that answer, as well. what i find astonishing, the total hypocrisy from the left on this issue, they re people who claim we love the environment so let s put everything in solar power. at the same time, let s buy the bulk, we don t have any rare earth minerals histo s here in united states, we don t have what we need, so let s give china the environmental regulations, some think there is a pacific wall in the ocean that keeps any kind of pollution from coming here to the united states. which we know is not true because of fukushima, but besides that, this is all ridiculous. i don t know where the $7 billion went. i would love to know. well, when you look at 7 billion look, when you look at countries that are that