Designate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 3 printed in part b of house report 1142 offered by mr. Desantis of florida. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 27, the gentleman from florida, mr. Desantis, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from florida. Mr. Desantis mr. Speaker, i yield two minutes to my colleague from alabama mrs. Roby. Mrs. Roby i thank the gentleman, madam chair. I rise today in support of h. R. 240, the Homeland Security appropriations act, and to offer this amendment alongside my colleague mr. Desantis of florida. If were going to fix a broken Immigration Law, the way to do it is to uphold the rule of law, not undermine it. President obama has offered amnesty to millions of Illegal Immigrants, and that not only undermines the rule of law it threatens american jobs. It is dangerous and irresponsible. I am proud to have worked alongside my colleagues, including mr. Aderholt from alabama, to get this bill
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Folks paid for a fully loaded cable bundle. Small businesses serving clients worldwide. Google named you the best city in iowa for ecommerce. You do you do not have to be the Biggest Community to do big things. You have to Work Together, and we are seeing that elevation and energy and foresight in communities across the country. In lafayette, Louisiana Companies are bringing jobs to the city. The people of yuma county colorado voted overwhelmingly in favor of a Community Broadband network. This is not a partisan issue folks just want to no that they are at the cutting edge of this new economy. Folks around the nation want these broadband networks. They promote efficiency and competition. Here in cedar falls, if you do not want the highest speed package you can choose between the utilities or options like mediacom. It is not like you do not have choices. That is how free market and capitalism is supposed to work. Here is the catch. And too many places across america Big Companies are do
Consume. The chair does the gentleman claim time in opposition to the amendment . Mr. Conyers i do. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Conyers thank you very much. I am very disturbed by the nature of this it it blackburn amendment because it would prevent the use of federal funds or resources to consider adjudicate, renewal of any previously denied application for deferred action for childhood arrivals, daca. Or any subsequently similar program. This amendment is similar to the same blackburn bill that passed the house in august of 2014. This amendment clearly terminates the daca program, the dreamers, ladies and gentlemen, my colleagues. The amendment prevents new persons from applying for daca and explicitly prohibits further efforts to renew deferred action under this amendment. Hundreds of thousands of young people who came forward past background checks obtained daca and have since followed the law would be deportable at the end of their twoyear deferred action period. Th
At 9 oclock today. In the first 45 minutes, your thoughts on using the hs fund to go tackle executive actions on immigration. You may agree with the efforts by the republicans or not. But you can call in on one of three lines this morning, 2027488000. Democrats, 20274888001. For republicans and for independent, 2027488002. You want to make your thoughts on one of our social Media Channels known on the republicans using the hs bill to stop immigration action. Send us email a lot journal cspan. Org. This effort with amendments voted and agreed on to yesterday scheduled for a vote was at a vote yesterday where john boehner talks about some of the reasons they are taking these actions on the chs bill and the efforts on executive action by the administration. Here is what he had to say. [video clip. ] our goal is to fund the department of Homeland Security. Our second goal is to stop the president s executive overreach. This is not the way our government was intended to work the the preside