Republicans have been at the table pushing the work through the committee process to determine how best to allocate this funding. And coming into this week. there was healthy debate and negotiations on moving forward with these plans. However. yesterday. the partisan dialogue we witnessed from a number of my colleagues across the aisle was nothing more than a ruse. Five separate motions to adjourn in order to stall a bipartisan bill to tighten our visa system and protect our Nations security. with purely political procedural votes to push their own gun control agendas is simply ridiculous. It wasted at least 3 hours of legislative time. Mr.