Speech #1100062851

We come with an increase in funding so we can fund the "loose nukes" program. the NunnLugar program. so we have more people out with more money buying more loose nuclear weapons that are getting spread around the world. we put hundreds of millions of dollars more into this program. which is going to keep us safe. Mr. Speaker. last week. the mother of all rhetorical contortions. we are passing a Homeland Security bill here. or trying to pass. where 3.000 Border Patrol agents will be funded. technology for all our ports to monitor chemical and biological weapons coming in. grants for first responders. police. fire. We also passed 50.000 new cops for the country for communities who cant afford them. a lot like mine. And they held up the bill. They held up the bill. Mr. Speaker. we are trying to pass funding for 3.000 Border Patrol agents. and they are trying to hold up the bill. Now. who is for homeland security now? And on and on and on. But what we have shown. and this is what I love about it. is that when these bills pass. those men and women who get hired to be Border Patrol agents will know it was the Democrats. When the minimum wage goes in this summer. they will know it was the Democrats. When you go to get a Pell grant. they will know it was the Democrats.