mrs. lowey: the key federal agencies tasked with responding to the humanitarian crisis on our borders are dangerously close to running out of money. these unanticipated costs are affecting the core functions at the department of homeland security and health and human services. and although the bill includes funding to hire additional immigration judicial teams and help set up new repatriation centers in central america, the amounts provided are insufficient. the justice department and the state department will not be able to handle their duties without significantly more resources. all four departments need more funding than this bill provides, and few are partisan immigration policy riders than this bill now contains. our majority unwisely included legislative language to make sweeping changes to current law related to due process and immigration proceedings. controversial legislation hastily added to an emergency supplemental is not the way to address a complicated problem. on july 8, the pres

mrs. lowey, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the the eman from kentucky, -- house will be in order. please take your conversations off the floor. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for 30 minutes. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and includeheir remarks and extraneous material on h.r. 5230. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. i ask the members and staff to please take their conversations ff the floor of the house. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: and that i may include tabular material on the same. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield myself six months. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for six minutes. mr. rogers: i rise today to present h.r. 5230, which provides immediate short-term funding to address the southwest border crisis. in total this bill provides $659 million to meet urgent border secu

mrs. lowey: madam speaker, i'm pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. farr, the ranking member of the agricultural subcommittee of appropriations. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for three minutes. mr. farr: thank you, madam ranking chair, for yielding. i rise, madam speaker, on this bill with great concern. i feel bringing a lot of fashions to this debate because i lived in the barrios, like the ones children were coming from, when i was a peace corps volunteer in latin america. this is not a border crisis. this is not a border security issue. this is a humanitarian crisis. it's caused by problems on both sides of the border. our country has a lot at fault here because we have not addressed comprehensive immigration reform, which means we have 11 million people living in the united states undocumented. they are essentially incarcerated in this contry. they are not allowed to go home because the minute they go home and try to get back to the united states, they get arrested and they are not allowed to ever return. or

mrs. lowey. the chair: the gentlelady from new york is recognized for six minutes. mrs. lowey: i thank the chair and i want to thank the chairman and the ranking member whose bipartisan cooperation and hard work are evident in the bill before us. this bill invests in a number of important programs that have strong democratic backing. this bill underscores the constraints of virtually flat discretionary spending. according to the american society of civil engineers, underinvestment in our marine ports and inland waterways endangers more than one million in jobs and $270 billion u.s. exports by 2020. while the corps of engineers would be given a slight increase above this year's level, budget caps won't help the corps make a dent in its $60 billion project backlog. forcing them once again to put off vital projects that would protect homes, businesses and communities. we're also missing an opportunity to ramp up investments in science and technology. research and development spending has fueled our

mrs. lowey: thank you. i rise in strong opposition to the bill, which fails to prioritize the middle class, create jobs and provide opportunity for every citizen to succeed. yet it contains a misguided political agenda, unworkable funding level, unnecessary riders that inhibit agencies' abilities to crack down on special interest abuses. for our economy to succeed, investors must have faith that regulators do their jobs. especially when we are still recovering from the economic calm caused by risky industry practices. yet this bill could put mom and pop investors and our entire economy at risk with inadequate funding authority for the s.e.c. at $300 million below the request. this is outrageous. when you consider that the s.e.c.'s funding does not take a dime of u.s. taxpayer dollars or impact the deficit in any way because it is entirely fee-funded. in the last fiscal year, due to budget constraints, the s.e.c. examined only about 9% of registered investment advisors. the number of investment advisors has