Mr. Speaker. for my friend who just spoke. let me set the record straight. When he claimed the Clinton administration has funded thousands and thousands of Border Patrol agents. Republican amendments have added 1.700 Border Patrol agents over the last 3 years above and beyond what the Clinton administration requested. President Clinton cut 93 Border Patrol agents in the fiscal year 1994 budget. We added 600. The next year we came with an additional 500. and the next year with an additional 400 agents. The Clinton administration has been dragged kicking and screaming to the border. They have opposed the border fence every step of the way. My last point is. even after they opposed the additional Border Patrol agents. President Clinton then sent his public relations people to San Diego to welcome the agents that he had opposed. If these people just linked arms. all the Clinton public relations people. we would not need a Border Patrol because they would stretch across the entire State.
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