It is so unfortunate. Mr. Speaker. that having achieved bipartisan agreement on a priority item. that is. border security. that within hours yesterday we turned that into a partisan bill on which there is neither consensus nor widespread agreement. I am sure the gentleman had the opportunity to hear a quote about the first 3 weeks of this session from one of his Republican Members. Mr. DENT. who talked about week one being. of course. the Speakership election. Then week two. we got into a big fight over deporting children under DREAMers. which I thought we had a consensus on. but we got into a big fight about that. And week three. we talked about rape and incest and. frankly. a partisan bill on a very. very important subject which did not have significant consideration and was substituted at 9 p.m. last night. no committee hearing. no committee input. no testimony available for that bill. I would say.
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