mr. o'rourke. mr. o'rourke: i would like to thank the gentlelady from new mexico for bringing her state's experience and perspective on this issue and for being a champion for the best in our traditions and our values. i'd like to build on the gentlelady's remarks and talk about one of the consequences of building walls. i've already made the case that the border is as secure as it's ever been. those who study and understand security issues have come to the conclusion that extra miles of wall don't deter migrants. the lower levels of migration that we see in this country have a lot more to do with the u.s. economy and its struggling performance in the immediate aftermath in the -- of the great recession and throughout that road oto recovery and relatively speak egg, the performance in other country, including mexico, that's afforded mexican nationals more opportunity to stay there. so the border is as secure as it's ever been, we recently doubled the size of the border patrol, we're using the latest, gr

mr. o'rourke: thank you. chairman thornberry: mr. byrne. mr. byrne: thank you for your service to our country and time with us today. admiral moran, the preponderance of our current 274-ship navy was constituted as a result of the reagan era 600-ship navy. these ships were built through the 1980's en1990's, many them have reached or beyond their original service life expectiancy. in your best military judgment, are we building and are we capable of building given our shipyard capacity enough ships to not only maintain this already hazardly low 274-ship navy in the battle force, but to also increase it to the 355 ships as called for in the latest force structure assessment? >> congressman, thank for the question. you are absolutely right. for the last couple decades we have been living off the fat of that rig. admiral moran: it's coming home to roost now. back then we used to build up to five a year. today we're fortunate to get two to three a year. so when you look at the math it doesn't add up over time. as that reagan era buildup starts to de

mr. o'rourke: mr. speaker, i move to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. it's close. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly the house stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning for morning hour debate.

mr. o'rourke: thank you, mr. speaker. yesterday our country and the community that i have the honor of representing, el paso, texas, lost one of our best. dr. joseph e. torres. who was 93 years old at the time of his death, still practicing dentistry in the community of el paso. and somebody who left a terrific legacy for his family, for our community, for this country and for all of posterity. dr. torres served in the u.s. army air corps from 1942 to 1945. he first served as an infantryman and then later as a navigater for the b-17 aircraft. dr. torres flew 13 bombing missions over germany, one of the most difficult missions to be assigned to anybody, over the course of world war ii. he later joined and served as a lieutenant in the army air corps reserve, from 1945 to 1947. he later joined the air force dental reserves are we reached the rank of colonel. as i said, he was a practicing dentist in el paso, texas. after his time in uniform, he continued to serve his community, he continued to serve his fellow el pasoans, h

mr. o'rourke wants to do and open the border, lay the border patrol off for a year, take that 13ds.4 billion, and we can build an interstate highway the full length of that and have $2.7 million a mile left over. that's how much money is being spent on the southern border to get 25% efficiency. you cannot convince me that if we spend $1.3 million a mile for the fence, if we dial -- for the wall, excuse me, if we dial that up to $2 million or a little more than $2 million a mile, so we can cover a fence on either side of that wall, and access roads that would be built out of necessity to build it and maintain it and patrol it, that a couple million dollars a mile on that wouldn't give us something pretty close to his -- to israeli-level border security. that's nearly 100%. that's up into the 99 percent aisle. beyond that, into the efficiency of the security of our border. of course we can get that kind of security on our border. and it doesn't mean we just build it and walk away. people on that side like to have you think that. that somehow we would build a wall and walk away and we leave the

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