Retreat. Funding for for the Homeland Security department as one of the things debated. Npr says the house passed bill is likely dead where the senate has enough members to filibuster. Npr also right that the bill has drawn the opposition of even some moderate House Republicans like congressman jeff denham of california whose called a setback on Immigration Reform and sends a mixed message. The Associated Press had this. The secret service said multiple gunshots were fired from a vehicle near the Vice President s home last night. They say shots were fired at around 8 25 on a public road outside the secure perimeter near the home in greenville, delaware. They say the vehicle joe passed the home at a high rate of speed and fled the scene. The incident is under investigation. Next, we show you the house debate on the five amendments to the home and security bill including one added by block of the executive action allowing some undocumented workers to stay in the u. S. And work legally. As i mentioned, i want to thank mr. Carter for his leadership and putting a comprehensive bill in front of us today. I am presenting, today, along with my distant was colleague from South Carolina and mr. Barletta from pennsylvania an amendment on the executive order on immigration. As has been noted last night and this morning, in december, the house voted to fund the federal government for this fiscal year. But we kept funding for the department of Homeland Security on a continuing resolution. By doing so we are at making a promise to the American People. That once we had a republican senate, we would Work Together as a congress to assure that the president s unconstitutional and unilateral actions what not go through. That promise has been kept. I would like to yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from texas. The german from texas is recognized. I recognize the executive action of 2014 and from members from 2011 and 2012 that the executive actions has no current standing in the law and must eat dismantled. The president has learned nothing from his previous executive amnesty action. Nearly 70,000 children arrived at our southern border of the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to the american taxpayer. This amendment turns back the president s shortsighted ticketed reach. We also consider additional amendments where we seek to correct the dangerous accident actions the president has taken. Without objection. Christ mr. Chairman, i rise to a laundry list of attacks that the executive branch has done to border policy. He caters to every whim of the republicans extreme elements. It would defund the campaigns designed to unify Border Security efforts. It would defund policies to improve employmentbased immigration and bring highly skilled workers into our country. It would defund the policy to parole in place emily members and citizens who seek to enlist in the u. S. Military. This is a policy supported by the department of defense. It would defund the division of temporary relief to individuals rot to this country illegally as children, those covered by the dream act, and the parents of u. S. Citizens who meet certain criteria. It would defund the serious policy of Immigration Enforcement priorities. Every prosecutor in this country executes exercises some level of discretion. We want to pursue murderers over traffic violators. We should also want dhs to focus enforcement efforts on Illegal Immigrants that an pose a threat on our communities. It would be preferable that the president s first to pass Immigration Reform. In the face of House Republicans failure to act the president has taken well considered steps each of them well grounded in his legal authority. As a republican majority wishes to change the law in some way to deny him such authority, they should introduce legislation to do so. This would sabotage the Homeland Security funding bill and undermine our Nation Security at a time of great danger. I urge our colleagues to oppose this amendment and i reserve the balance of my time. The gentleman from alabama is recognize. I would like to recognize the majority leader of the house representatives and thank him for his leadership and yields in one minute to speak. The gentleman from california is recognized. I think the derailment for yielding. Mr. Speaker when the president was asked about his deportation policy early in 2013, president obama said im the president of the United States of america. Im not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed. A few days earlier, he said and i quote i am not a king. Im the head of the executive branch of government. Im required to follow the law. 20 two times, mr. Speaker, the president said he cannot ignore Immigration Law and create new laws by himself. Now mr. Speaker, president obama has done exactly what he said he could not do. What changed between then and now . Nothing. The constitution is exactly the same. And Congress Still retains the sole power to legislate. Mr. Speaker, president s do not have the right to rewrite any law in any instance. The fact is explicitly clear in regards to immigration. Actually when it comes to immigration, the Supreme Court stated and i quote over no conceivable subject is a legislative power of congress more complete. This is not a battle between democrat and republican. This is not a battle between proimmigration and antiimmigration. It does not matter whether mr. Speaker you like the results of what the president did or not. This is about resisting the assault on democratic government and protecting the constitutional separation of powers. Let me be clear. This bill funds the entire department of Homeland Security. That is not an issue here. So when we vote today, there is only one question asked. Do we weaken our constitution by allowing the executive to legislate or do we defend the most fundamental laws of our democracy . There is no middle ground. I yield back. The gentleman yield back. The joe manchin meant from North Carolina is mechanized. I yield two minutes to the gentleman of new york. The general men from new york is recognized for two minutes. Thank you, mr. Cham in. Mr. Chairman. The congress started one week ago with the Republican Leadership saying they wanted to Work Together and govern together. It only took a week for Republican Leadership to fold to its rightwing instead of compromise, we see confrontation. Make no mistake. The amendments being debated this morning would stop the bill and killed the bill and hurt those who were brought here as children and know no other country than the United States prevent the department of Homeland Security from prioritizing the deportation of National Security threats and dangerous felons, and a little more than a collection of political soundbites. If you do not agree with the president s Enforcement Actions which are legal, and similar to steps taken by several republican president s, then let us have a serious debate about comprehensive Immigration Reform. Then bring an immigration bill to the floor. The president s executive action will grow the economy by 90 to 200 10 billion of the next 10 years. It would raise average wages to usborn workers by 170 a year. The House Republican proposal would not only eradicate these gains, but harm numerous security initiatives. After that tragic event in paris, it is appalling that some would jeopardize our National Security by adding these ears possible amendments. Let us a vote against these bills and move forward to the solid bipartisan Homeland Security bill, supported by democrats, republicans, in the house and the senate. I yield back. Your time is expired. The gentleman from alabama is recognize. I would like to yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from virginia, the chairman of the house committee. Thank you for yielding and for your leadership on this issue. I urge my colleagues to support the barletta amendment. The amendment would completely defund president obamas unconstitutional power grab and granting the first status to unlawful aliens. This policy threatens the separation of powers between the congress and executive branch and violates president obamas obligation to take care of the laws be faithfully executed. In a get in addition, the amendment will also bar obama from using immigration fees to accomplish his executive fiat. The amendment also the funds the prosecutor will discretion memos and the amendment defund the ability of aliens to receive any federal benefit based on these policies. Finally, the amendment makes clear is that the funded programs have no statutory or constitutional basis and therefore, have no legal effect. I again urge my colleagues to support this very good amendment. The general its time is expired. Mr. Chairman, i yield two minutes from the gentleman of illinois. This is to mr. Garriott mr. Gutierrez. The general from illinois is recognize for two minutes. Wow. Time flies when you are playing politics with peoples lives. Just a year ago when the republican majority was rushing off of their retreat, they had a very different story. Here it is. Hows Immigration Reform 2013 we are looking to give legal status to kids. How gop leaders raised to include thanks for undocumented. One of the headlines today . A hold, through a puppy and mass deportation. One year ago. This is the difference in the headlines that your party and your policies on immigration have cause. But wait. Let us say what you said in your principles. It is time to provide an opportunity for legal residence and cynicism ship for those who are brought to this country as children through no fault of their own, those who know no other places home. Citizenship. Legal residents for the undocumented youth. That was your idea. One that we applauded and accepted and we cheered on. One year later, you want to take away from 600,000 dreamers their right to live in this country and you want to deport them all. What happened . We would like to remind the gentleman to direct remarks to the chair, not to other members. Then let me say this. I just think, if that is what happened in one year, what are you going to come up with next year . What is your game plan for next year . Is it the kind of decision that you take from one year to the next. I know you believe this will cause fear and confusion and consternation in the immigrant community throughout this nation. Thereby causing the failure of the president executive order because no one will sign up. Let me tell you something. Efforts of your actions today will only cause anger and outrage and the mobilization of an immigrant community throughout this nation that will be the death nail to the future of your party as a national institution. That is what you will reap today with this. Tonight, i will be with congressman cicilline and i will be there standing with the archdiocese and evangelicals and men of faith in Providence Rhode island and people will come for. Where will the Republican Party be . Simply telling us that we cannot do better. The gentleman reserves. The general men from alabamas recognize. Thank you mr. Chairman. I would like to yield one minute to the gentleman from pennsylvania, the cosponsor of this amendment who has been very helpful in drafting this amendment. I would like to recognize mr. Valletta. Is recognized for one minute. I would like to support my amendment which i coopted with my colleagues. The purpose is simple. We defined we defund president obamas unlawful action for immigrants. The president announced it only two months ago. We also know that with his executive amnesty truly began. It began in 2011 with the worst memos. Those memos told officials not to pursue certain broad categories of Illegal Immigrants. The amendment defund the enforcement of those memos and that goes to the heart of those amnesty programs. In short these memos told immigration officers to view the law the way president obama wished it had been written rather than how Congress Actually wrote it. That is the crux of this. In the United States, we still have a legislative branch of government and our amendment defendant. I yield back. The gentleman yields back. The gentleman from North Carolinas recognize. I yield two minutes to the gentleman of california, ms. Sanchez, the president of the hispanic caucus. Is recognize for two minutes. She is recognize for two minutes. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to speak against hr 240, the venomous and dangerous republican approach is bill of the department of Homeland Security. This bill and its amendment pander to those in the Republican Party who are unhappy with president obamas executive action on immigration. It is malicious and foolish leslie foolishly puts our country at risk. Republicans made this immigration bill under the guise of the constitution. The of sharks and and political games that the republicans are playing of the true behaviors that needs to be condemned. Republicans are not interested in Offering Solutions are working to tackle the most pressing issues facing our country. How do i know . Because instead of offering a longterm solution to fix our broken immigration system and can have opted to hold hostage funding for one of the most critical agencies in our government. And as they peddle their mallets about immigrants to pander to their base, they put our National Security at risk. We should be doing everything we can to provide a security agencies with the support and resources that they need to prevent attacks like the one that occurred in france last week. Instead, republicans are willing to withhold funding our National Security in order to send a message to the president. If that were not juvenile enough, this bill also attacks the most vulnerable in our society. Public and amendments seek to revictimized those who have suffered Domestic Violence. Taking on one of the groups least able to defend themselves. When i was a k, we call that bullying. Republicans are consciously targeting millions of families who work hard, who contribute to their communities, and are just trying to give their children a chance at the american dream. You know that same dream that many of our grandparents had when they came to that country. With this bill, republicans are not just a dandy basic humanity. They also turning their backs on the economic benefits of bringing these people out of the shadows. We can grow our economy to 210 billion of the next 10 years if we allow our workers to participate in the economy. This is a new congress. Your time has expired. As a country we are better than this and shame on you. The gentleladys time is expired. The gentleman from alabamas recognize. I would like to yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from South Carolina who is not only a close of this amendment, but again was instrumental in this amendment taking place. I would like to yield one minute to mr. Mullaney from South Carolina. I would like to do something that i do not normally do witches implore my colleagues across the aisle to please please support this amendment. Let us take away from at least one day the are or the d from behind the president s name. Let us take the r and the d behind our names. The president is doing something he cannot do make law. He is using the excuse that this body cannot act so that he can. That is not how the system works and it is wrong. Im here today to tell you that in the future, a republican president does the same thing that i will be the first to be here and stand against that and fight back. But today, i implore you to please support the amendment even if you are voting against the bill. This will send a message that law is not made in the white house. Law is not made because congress failed to act. Law is made in this room when we do act. Every single time that any president violates that he violates all this institution. Thank you, mr. Chairman p a the gentleman from North Carolinas recognize. May i inquire to the time remaining on both sides . The general in from alabama has four minutes remaining. I reserve. The gentleman from alabamas recognized. I would like to yield to the distinguished gentleman from california. He is recognize for 30 seconds. Our nations constitution is clear. Congress holds the power of the purse. There are no exceptions. There are no asterisks. There are no fine print. The founders designed our government in order to prevent these exact circumstances a president who ignores the law and refuses to work with congress and refuses to govern unilaterally. Whatever your views of the president s plan, it is the responsibility of every member of the house to support this amendment to maintain Representative Government and to main hold maintain hold of the republic. It is not broken. It is not being used. The gentleman reserves. The gentleman from North Carolina is reco