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Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to examine the Current Crisis at the border regarding unaccompanied children. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Today on the southwest border we are facing an escalating refugee crisis. Parents are handing over their Young Children by the thousands to cartels who are profiting by smuggling these kids to the United States. Many are under the age of 10. Including some barely old enough to walk. These children with no parents, relatives or legal guardians risk a perilous and sometimes fatal journey riding buses and trains ...

Help pay for needy social spending and poverty reduction, thats important. But also as a very important part of improving governments and combatting corruption, you dont want to face a culture where every time you meet the tan tax man, youre having a long haggle as to how much of your tax payment will go to him or her and how much will go to the treasury. Youre wasting time negotiating with the tax man, you should be negotiating with your customers and suppliers. So there is a twofold impact there. Let me just follow up on that. For those of us who rely on the newspapers and television to info...

Items that have to be addressed. Obviously, we must pave the way for the va to use nonva care to expand veteran access and clear the current backlog. But we cant just fix the problem by simply throwing more money at it. The va has had more medical care funding than it could spend during each of the last four fiscal years. To include 1. 4 billion as recently as 2010 and was set to carry over 450 million this year before dipping into those funds for the current accelerated access to care initiative. This is led to multiple testimonies by both va and nonva witnesses who have noted that the Bigges...

The United States. This is a good start. But a lot more needs to be done. In addition to a robust and Effective Public Service campaign, we should also engage with the government of mexico to step up their efforts to secure their southern border. I call on the president of mexico and his interior minister to do just that. Im very concerned that this recent surge is weakening our Border Security efforts here at home. Border patrol agents and officers who are looking after these children are being taken away from their main duty, their mission of tracking down drug and weapon smugglers as well a...

Highways are crumbling and we cannot sit by and play politics while our infrastructure continues to deteriorate. So, mr. Speaker, im here tonight hoping that these words are not falling on the floor and will not be impactful when we come in here like this, were hoping that these words matter and that things can change and that they will change. It is my hope that this congress will act and act quickly because we cannot wait until the last minute going into august, when we will end up looking at a Highway Trust Fund becoming insolvent. And that means it will drop below the 4 billion funding lev...