This is 20 minutes. Heads up oh, yeah. Good morning everyone. Welcome back 2024 is already off to a very busy start. I want to begin by addressing the shocking actions and lack of transparency from the department of defense. It is absolutely unacceptable that the pentagon waited multiple days to notify the president of the United States the National Security council, and the American People that defense secretary austin was hospitalized and unable to perform his duties. I represent fort drum home of the most deployed division in the u. S. Army since 9 11 there are currently thousands of tenth Mountain Division soldiers deployed in the middle east while those brave Service Members were under attack by iranian backed terrorists, the secretary of defense was in the icu, the deputy secretary of defense was on vacation, and joe biden and the white house were completely unaware. In the chain of demanding secretary of defense serves as connection to which the president commands and controls our arm forces. There will be a congressional investigation already launched by chairman mike rodgers into this dare election of duty and must be full accountability believing with resignation of austin and anyone who lied for him i want to turn our attention to joe bidens border crisis which continues to be the number one concern certainly of constituents in my district and top concerns of americans across the country. Last week over 6000 republicans went to texas to see first hangsd the catastrophe that joe biden open border policies have created. And it is not just in upstate new york where my district chair shares border with canada overwheed by a flux of Illegal Immigrants from 79 different country pps just recently apprehending an Iranian National with clear terrorist ties. Since joe biden stepped into the oval office there have been ove million illegal crossings last month. More than 300,000 Illegal Immigrants poured into our country setting the record for the most monthly encounters in history. As president Ronald Reagan historically said, quote, a nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation end quote. Every day, that joe biden and secretary mayorkas refuse to secure our borders, they fail the American People. Sack facing our nations safety, security, and sovereignty. And while joe biden and democrats refuse to act, House Republicans have passing the strongest Border Security bill in American History hr2 the secure the border act. And we voted for significant year over year funding increases for our courageous Border Control and i. C. E. Agents as we speak House Republicans on the Homeland Committee are beginning the impeachment process of secretary mayorkas for refusing to do his job and refusing to uphold the law. With that im going turn it over to mike flood from nebraska one of our members who joined speak or johnson last week at eagle pass as part of the largest congressional delegation to southern bder in history. Mike. Thank you chairwoman and i want to thank speak or johnson for bringing 64 of us to eagle pass twhax i heard from border chief at eagle pass was disgusting. From december 20th to december 30th, eight to thousand Illegal Immigrants crossed into our nation. But what really bothered me was and we have to understand this as americans with of influx comes into the United States, it requires all 186 Border Agents that are on shift at that shift to come off patrolling border and come into the Processing Center to process 8 to 10,000 people into United States each day. 85 of those are released into the United States at 72 hours. I think what americans go to bed at night, they expect Border Patrol agents to be engaged in laws enforcement activities by patrolling the border. For ten days stands for except a four mile area across eagle pass 452 miles of the u. S. Mexico border was unguarded for ten days. What does that mean . That means drugs, fentanyl, human trafficking, the organized cartels that are making 32 Million Dollars week just at the eagle pass area thats when they are harming america by diverting all sorts of nefarious drugs and guns into the United States which turns every city in america into a border town it turns every city in nebraska into a border town. Secretary mayorkas has a lot to answer for i look forward to everything that the speaker and the leadership have put forward as a rank and file member i couldnt be more proud to been this team and with that honored to introduce our majority whip tom of minnesota. Thank you, mike. A new year does not mean a clean slate for the Biden Administration from joe bidens disturbing pattern of corruption to inexcusable chaos mike was describing on our border House Republicans are working to get the American People the answers they deserve. Today the House OversightJudiciary Committees will consider a hunter biden in contempt of congress for defying lawful subpoenas i applaud chairman comer and chairman leadership in introducing this legislation reminding hunter biden that congress is not just a back drop for his press stunts. Ignoring congressional subpoenas is a violation of federal law. Its that simple. Hunter ben last name shields him from accountability. He believes hes entitled to a different set of laws as the president s son. We will remind him that hes not above the law. Meanwhile the Homeland Security committee will initiate impeachment against secretary mayorkas for ignoring our immigration laws. Chairman green is carried out nearly year long investigation and one thing has been made very clear. Secretary mayorkas has refused to enforce laws of congress and fulfill his oath of office. Im secretary mayorkass watch nearly 10 million Illegal Immigrants have crossed into the u. S. When youncays. The dhs releasing more than 1 million Illegal Immigrants into our country per year. And cartels are trafficking children and smuggling deadly fentanyl into our communities. What is secretary mayorkass response . To tell the American People not to believe theyre lying eyes refusing to acknowledge that whats happen at border is a full fledged unastainable crisis American People wont stand for it and neither will house majorities our majority given a mandate to provide transparency and accountability and were going to uphold our end of that bargain today if democrats plan to argue and support of hunter blatant disregard for the law and secretary mayorkass decisions that have put countless americans in harms way look forward to hearing their rational with that i turn it over to our speaker mike. Thank you, thank you all for being here. Happy new year to everyone. I hope its going well for you so far we had a busy holiday, and many of our committeess earnestly through the threeweek time away when people were working in the districts committees were still hard at work oversight judiciariuation and means on what were talking about today and let me reiterate and then take questions. It was mentioned that we took what was the largest congressional delegation ever to the sorning border a week ago. 64 members attend there was 26 states represented one territory, and that was not just symbolism its because every state has been mentioned here is a border state. Every one in the country understands this is an unmitigated catastrophe. It is a humanitarian catastrophe. It is a National Security catastrophe, and it must be addressed. America is at a breaking point we know that you have heard numbers mentioned today but theres 300 suspects in the known terrorist watch list that we know that are in the country. Youve heard numbering got aways 7. 1 million encounters since joe biden took office. We estimate number of people actually in the country is probably close to 14 to 15 million. You think about that. It is a Staggering Number in december dashst number total of persons crossing the border in our history. It is unsustainable youre talking about hundreds of thousands of people a we cant do this. When we went down to eagle pass we saw some alarming things and i summarized it the best way i could heartbreaking and infuriating heartbreaking because we saw human tragedy this is they walked us into the Processing Centers and look at the children, unaccompany minors that were just there and you know joe biden lost track of 85,000 of unaccompany minors that have com into the country theyve been districted throughout the country by way of mgo or other means and then they lost them. We were asking Border Patrol agents there in Processing Center they go through a form of identification process for people who come across illegally they do finger prints and facial recognition and collect as much as they can and they dont do that under age of 14 well theres a law that prevent it is. Well what do you do for those children . As much as we can. What if they dont speak english or communicate and what if theyre really young and we put a label on them that says john or john dough what happens next . Well we dont know were just the Border Patrol. Our job is just to process people. Mgo bus them away. You know what children are making their way into trafficking it just were looking through the plexiglass children looking up at us with sad eyes and god knows into our country it is just unbelievable that this is being allowed to happen and these are policy choices that got us here. The white house has made a decision deliberately to do this joe biden from his first day in Office Issued executive orders to again to open the border. We produced a report following trip there was 64 members of the house House Republicans who are on that border and we documented 64 times ironically that Biden Administration undermine Border Security with executive orders Agency Decisions and the rest. This is a staggering thing that the American People need to see and understand and were going make that available to everybody. We learn that drug cartels in mexico is is as congressman flood mentioned 32 million a week trafficking people into the country dot math it is like 1. Billion dollars year this is just the del rio sector at eagle pass happening all across the border think of that these are transnational dangerous criminal organizations that are doing untold harm to people innocent children teenage girls people who are innocent in all of this. And the Biden Administration is empowering that. Mexico is effectively a narco state. And they seem to be uneffected by it so were demanding that the president take executive order. Congress on statutory fixes of this we passed hr2 as mentioned eight months ago been sitting on chum schumers desk secure the border act. It would reinstitute remain in mexico. It would end catch and release madness thats going on and wall if we docket have functional equivalent of those component were not going to solve the problem this is common sense. It should not be a partisan issue. It is not about republican or democrat it is about what is right for the country and were commanding that the white house take action now. They told us on our visit Border Patrol agents senior Border Patrol agents they said listen, we feel as though were administering open fire hydrant. This is a senior 33 year veteran administering hope fire hydrant right now people are sending more buckets but we immediate to turn the flow off thats a metaphor so house of republicans will continue to insist upon real transformation policies at the border an one more point the leading perpetrator of this, of course, is secretary. Secretary mayorkas is is impeachment hearings are going today we take no pleasure in this there hasnt been a cabinet secretary impeached since the late 1800s but we live in unprecedented times we never had a cabinet secretary who had federal law refused to enforce law and congressman before Congress Takes oath and tells us things that he knows and everyone knows are, obviously, untrue and insisting that border is secure. And that theyve got operational control of that is is just simply notsh true and he says it over and over and over this week he admitted agency is currently releasing over 85 of the illal border. He knows exactly what is happening and hes doing nothing to stop it im grateful for the careful work chairman greene has doafn the past really many months investigating the secretary doing our constitutional duty it is the duty of congress to hold the administrative administrators and executive Branch Accountable that is what theyve done carefully, methodically, not in any snap way not in a political way. Theyve been looking at the facts. And because secretary mayorkas repewses to enforce law congress is now going to have to take the next step to hold him accountable so well see how that plays out. I will take your questions on anything now. Mr. Speaker, thank you. Happy new year. You know, cr youve made that abundantly clear, but it seems increasingly clear that cr will be needed to avert a shutdown before january 19th first deadline are you willing to shut down government rather than cr in order for congress to take up appropriation bills and get them to the president s deck . Listen we have the process working on alle came up with a e agreement thats so appropriate tores in both chambers can get together to negotiate final spending bills. We have been working very hard at the end of the congress to get 12 separate appropriation bills done weve passed seven off the house floor and funded 70 of the government and four of the rest have been through at least some final stages of the process if not a house floor both and senate has done three bills so now this is in a room to negotiate with a final numbers are it is working in earnest i would say the pedal to the metal rig now and im optimistic that you can meet the deadlines and january 2nd two challenges and not going to working overtime as members have been. As Leadership Team has been, all throughout holidays to get this done for the people it was a tough negotiation we got it done. I think it is best potential deal that conservatives and republicans could get under these circumstances we can carve out gimmick of the side deal that went along with the topline 16 billion and some change that we are converted gimmicks savings to taxpayers i think thats a win and wall street journal and other outlets said as much were going advance this and push it aggressively and hopeful we can meet the deadlines. You want a 100 on a cr rule now . Im not ruling committing to anything other than getting appropriations done and i think we can and were pushing everybody hard. Theyre working overtime and dutifully and value value i heard too we have a huntero complain about being compelled to testify but hes in defiance of the subpoena, and that is the important and undenial fact here hes defying a lawful congressional subpoena. So i support the oversight and Judiciary Committee efforts to hold him in contemt not any pleasure in this this is not political. Our parties are doing their job and oversight judiciary and weighs and Means Committee for a year now have been carefully methodically investigating these incredible allegations against the biden family. And weve had whistleblowers come forward from agencies from the irs and others who have come forward and said, this theres a lot of smoke here. And it looks like there may be fire as well so the job of the congress under impeachment power thats given to the house specifically exclusively is to investigate these things with credible allegations of this kind of activity and follow the truth where it leads thats what youve heard me say it over and over thats the next step and when somebody denies subpoena of congress he wants another foe on but hes not complying with that subpoena. Yes, sir. Thank you mr. Speaker and happy new year. Some of members of your conference who were posed spending with the senate have talked about a motion to vacate talked about it yesterday publicly said that he still pondering it are you concerned that you could lose jr. Job over this deal as the last speaker did over the last cr . Im not concerned about that. Were leading chip roy one of my closest friends and agree on everything in principle what ive talked with him is the reality of being soon to be smallest majority in the history of the congress i think in one exception 1917 according to my research are difficult challenges to advance the ball and advance our conservative principles and were going to demonstrate that we can governor well and going forward. Look leadership is tough. You take a lot of criticism, but i remember i am a hardline conservative thats what they used to call me they come from