desantis of florida. if we're going to fix a broken immigration law, the way to do it is to uphold the rule of law, not undermine it. president obama has offered amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, and that not only undermines the rule of law it threatens american jobs. it is dangerous and irresponsible. i am proud to have worked alongside my colleagues, including mr. aderholt from alabama, to get this bill to the floor today so that we can responsibly fund the department of homeland security but also defund the president's unlawful executive amnesty. madam chair, you want a great example of why the president, acting ube laterally to -- unilaterally to circumvent congress, this amendment we're offering today demonstrates that. right now illegal immigrants convicted of child abuse sexual offenders and domestic abusers are not a top priority for deportation in this country. this amendment simply makes them a priority for deportation. this is the example as to why the president circumventing congress

desantis of florida. if we're going to fix a broken immigration law, the way to do it is to uphold the rule of law, not undermine it. president obama has offered amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, and that not only undermines the rule of law it threatens american jobs. it is dangerous and irresponsible. i am proud to have worked alongside my colleagues, including mr. aderholt from alabama, to get this bill to the floor today so that we can responsibly fund the department of homeland security but also defund the president's unlawful executive amnesty. madam chair, you want a great example of why the president, acting ube laterally to -- unilaterally to circumvent congress, this amendment we're offering today demonstrates that. right now illegal immigrants convicted of child abuse sexual offenders and domestic abusers are not a top priority for deportation in this country. this amendment simply makes them a priority for deportation. this is the example as to why the president circumventing congress

desantis of florida. if you're going to fix broken immigration law, the way to do it is to uphold law, not to undermine it. president obama has offered amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. that not only undermines the rule of law, it threatens american jobs. it is dangerous and irresponsible. i'm proud to have worked alongside my colleagues, including mr. hold from alabama to get this bill to the floor today so we can responsibly fund the homeland security and to de-fund obama's illegal amnesty. you want a great example of the president acting unilaterally to segment congress as a bad idea? this demonstrates that. right now, illegal immigrants convicted of child abuse, sexual offenders, and a messick abusers are not a top priority for deportation in this country. this amendment simply makes them a priority for deportation. this is the example as to why the president circumventing congress is not only about idea but undermines the law. i asked my colleagues to not only support a very important amendm

specifically, to desantis they say that representative desantis' amendment, the bishops say, would prevent the department of homeland security from implementing the memoranda several setting immigrant enforcement priorities. while presented as a measure that helps domestic violence victims, we fear that it actually would discourage many such victims from reporting abuse. immigrants face on tackles of reporting crimes that have been perpetrated against them. this amendment would perpetuate this problem. so i urge our colleagues to vote no on all of the amendments call to their attention the letter from the bishops urging a no vote on the amendments and submit it for the record. and, again, say that what is disturbing about this -- we have a difference of opinion about immigration or this or that, but to describe the president as lawlessness, to use the constitution as the basis for this debate when in fact the courts have upheld the rights of our presidents to act -- take executive action in relationship to protecting immigrants in our country. every president, democratic and republican fro

desantis. you're so right when you categorized this unilateral bad deal as an economic life line to the castro regime. and a person who understands that just as well as you do is our next speaker the gentleman from iowa, a senior member of the house committee on agriculture, congressman steve king. and he could say, hey my state is going to benefit a lot by this deal. the sad reality is that castro doesn't pay his debt, as we had just said with the other speaker. he owes everybody money. this deal will not strengthen u.s. national security, it will not be good for america's farmers and it will not be good for the people of cuba. congressman king for four minutes. mr. king: i thank the gentlelady from florida for organizing this special order and i associate myself with her words, her position. also of that the gentleman from florida who i didn't mr. speaker, realize how much was in him about this issue. it was instructive for me to listen to that. i've had the privilege of serving here in congr

consent to place into the record a letter from 14 sheriffs and police chiefs asking that we oppose the desantis amendment. finally, the -- the chair: the gentlewoman's request is covered under general leave. ms. lofgren: the remaining two amendments also create problems. it says that petitions filed by people of unlawful status should be deferred to those who are filed by those in lawful status but that is too broad. there are many petitions filed by people in an unlawful status we would not want to delay. green cards for the wives and husbands of american citizens. request review visas by victims of human trafficking. these are all people who would be harmed by the amendment. i would note that the amendment the fourth amendment is based on the falsehood that the president's immigration actions created an incentive for employers to defer to hiring deferred action recipients instead of american workers is simply not true. now we need to have a serious conversation about immigration policy in the house. but threatening to shut down the department of homeland security is not the way to do that. th

or ask mike lee and representative ron desantis about the hero act which aims at reforming educationocess in higher education to break the liberal monopoly in universities and give students a lot more for their money and more marketable skills. what about new energy solutions that will lower the cost the cost of living for regular americans and eliminate our dependence on unfriendly foreign countries for oil. don't look to the radical left, those who call themselves progressives but never saw a pipeline they didn't want to shut down or technology they didn't want to regulate or air they didn't want to tax. instead, look to the representatives like jeff duncan whose expand act will encourage modern approach to energy reduction and incentivize further development. not by carving out tax breaks but by lowering rates across the board. ask yourself who is dedicated on shining spotlight on corruption? who wants to cut waste, fraud and abuse? it can't be this administration, which the associated press has determined is the least transparent in history or the financial giants who are too big

and desantis wants to misrepresent to victims of human trafficking and domestic violence. and mr. salmon and his amendment wants to suggest that workers are being hired over american workers. and mr. schock wants to ignore the investment of this particular language into this nation. let me end by saying this is an attack on immigrants. let's vote against all of these. the chair: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from illinois reserves? mr. schock: we reserve. ms. lofgren: i believe we have the right to close so we would reserve. the chair: the gentleman from illinois has the right to close. he has 15 seconds remaining. ms. lofgren: all right. then at this point i'd yield the balance of our time to the ranking member of our full committee, the gentleman from michigan, mr. conyers. the chair: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. mr. conyers: thank you, madam chair. members of the committee i oppose the schock amendment for many of the numerous reasons that have already been stated by our colleagues. but i want to make sure that we're all perfe

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a member of our house foreign affairs committee congressman ron desantis. mr. desantis: mr.er, i would like to recognize my colleague from florida because she is not just on the house floor fighting for freedom for the cuban people who she obviously has a -- an ancestral relation with she fights for freedom for everybody, whether it's in venezuela, iran, she's there, you can set your clock to it. when i first heard about these concessions, you know i was really scratching my head. i was flummocksed, i talked to my colleague -- flummoxed i talked to my colleagues. raul castro goes out and talks to the people, we're not changing anything. they're staying exactly with the values that they have been with from the beginning which are antagonist toik freedom, antagonistic to everything we hold dear here in the united states. you know, when you look at countries like cue bark a lot of times, you don't need to get into the nitty-gritty there are certain signs where you know the nature of the regime. look at communeism in eastern europe. you don't have to look at the daily life or an

desantis: mr. speaker i'd like to offer an

[applause] >> will have a 10 minute break and coming up soon we will have broad desantis cover rising star of the movement. you will like his talks. and then we will have run all right after that. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> all right. vertical masses back. i decided to introduce tom cottom to all of you. tom cottom has been a strong conservative since his arrival in the house last congress. he's been an outspoken advocate for conservative policy proposals at home while claiming ground is an articulate hawk our security challenges abroad. his skepticism of's posture towards a rant in strong support for the relationship with israel and leadership on renewing america's strength and leadership overseas have identified him as an emerging leader in our movement. more importantly his personal experience as a combat infantry officer with completed combat tours in iraq and afghanistan have informed him on are very real and personal level the nature of our enemies overseas. one thing that i actually think it's pretty important to note here i