Speech #1100129748

I remain adamantly opposed to the underlying Omnibus legislation that effectively guts the Secure Fence Act passed during the 109th Congress. Securing the border of the United States is one of the most important responsibilities of the federal government. The Republicanled Congress last year did the right thing by passing the Secure Fence Act that mandated the construction of 854mile double layered border fence along our Southwest border. Unfortunately. one of the few acts actually accomplished by this first session of the 110th Congress will be to remove that mandate and ensure that our southern border remains one of our weakest links in the effort to secure our homeland. Frankly. this is unacceptable.