houston, expressing a great sense of pride in the greater houston partnership, their leadership and jeff moseley for frankly taking the lead. i will answer the question, congress should do something. lamar smith knows that we set together on this committee, myself as the ranking member. and lamar smith during that time as the chairman on the subcommittee on immigration. and frankly, we should have done something then. it is difficult to bark and have no teeth. and congress has been barking. we've been in conflict. we opposed each other. the two distinct sides of the aisle, if you will. we've done nothing. and i would ask myself the question, how many national guard and border security can you put at a border and think anything is going to occur for people who are struggling and desperate and are coming into this country to work? so it is a chicken and egg situation and frankly you need a system of laws that allow people to enter the country fairly so that you can stop the onslaught of those who say, i'm simply coming and we know it is because during this recession, mayor, jeff and two all of you

as the chair introduce me by name is jeff moseley and service president of the greater houston partnership and i want to say thank u for allowing me to be part of this testing yours panel and a pleasure to be with mayor bloomberg and mr. murdoch as mr. camarota. i've submitted a written testimony of these, giving, it's a quick summary of the reinstatement and loli to of us cannot agree on specifics, we certainly appreciate the fact that there is a conversation with themerican people. a conversation that focuses on the role of immigration, a conversation on strengthening america's economy, and a conversation about fixing a broken immigration law. the greater houston partnership is a business association, w have 3,000 members and these represent companies that do more than 1.6 trillion in annual revenues. the partnership seeks to bring a grassroots voice for the business community and for indury and to this american dialogue. a voice that we recognize has quite frankly been missing from the debate. during the last several years we have witnessed several failed attempts to pass immigration re

as the chair introduce me by name is jeff moseley and service president of the greater houston partnershipand i want to say thank you for allowing me to be part of this testing yours panel and a pleasure to be with mayor bloomberg and mr. murdoch as mr. camarota. i've submitted a written testimony of these, giving, it's a quick summary of the reinstatement and loli to of us cannot agree on specifics, we certainly appreciate the fact that there is a conversation with the american people. a conversation that focuses on the role of immigration, a conversation on strengthening america's economy, and a conversation about fixing a broken immigration law. the greater houston partnership is a business association, we have 3,000 members and these represent companies that do more than 1.6 trillion in annual revenues. the partnership seeks to bring a grassroots voice for the business community and for industry and to this american dialogue. a voice that we recognize has quite frankly been missing from the debate. during the last several years we have witnessed several failed attempts to pass immigrat