Speakers on the other side of the aisle cant stand the fact that there is a new congressional leadership here. Its rolling up its sleeves and doing the oversight work. the oversight work for an agency called Homeland Security that was created just a few years ago. the biggest bureaucracy in modern American history. 200.000 employees. $36 billion in expenditure. made up of all kinds of things from airports. seaports. Border Patrol. immigration. the list goes on and on. The leadership of this committee decided to really put some factfinding into it. It had more hearings than any committee in history in this subject matter. visited more sites. visited the borders. the hot spots. visited Katrina sites. talked with Customs and Border Patrol. with harbor district patrol. with Coast Guard. with truck inspectors at the Ota Mesa truck center. the biggest truck inspection center in the word. with the San Ysidro crossing. the largest traffic crossing in the world. You know what every one of those patrolmen and Inspectors told me? We cant do our job unless you pass a comprehensive immigration bill. Its not just about more fences and more assets on the border. Its about the whole enchilada. the whole immigration bill. I think there is an underlying current here. They dont want an immigration bill. and they know that this is the agency that deals with it. So its a delay tactic. Now. a delay tactic. we have been here for 24 hours.
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