English transcript

I thank the Distinguished General Lady from New York. We are here today to do a single job and that should be to fund fully the Department of Homeland Security.

Anything else is an abdication of our responsibility.

Anything else is an act of legislative malpractice simply because of the inability of my friends on the other side of the aisle to satisfy the thirst of the extreme right-wing anti-immigration base of the party.

And so we're playing political games at a time when the safety and the security of the American people is being threatened.