ms. lofgren: mr. chair, i'd yield two minutes to the gentlelady from maryland. the chair: the gentlelady from maryland is recognized for two minutes. ms. edwards: thank you madam chair, and thank you to the gentlelady for yielding the time. i'd ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a letter from the national task force to end sexual and domestic violence against women opposing the desantis-roby amendment. the chair: does the lady request -- the request will be covered by general leave. ms. edwards: thank you. and thank you, again. as a founder and former executive director of the national network to end domestic violence, i join the network of every state domestic violence coalition and the national task force to end sexual and domestic violence against women in opposing this amendment. this issue is really very simple. often, too often of cases of domestic violence law enforcement show up at a home, they can't figure out what happened, both parties are arrested and down the line both plea to misdemeanor domestic violence offenses. it happens all the tim

ms. lofgren: mr. chair, i'd yield two minutes to the gentlelady from maryland. the chair: the gentlelady from maryland is recognized for two minutes. ms. edwards: thank you madam chair, and thank you to the gentlelady for yielding the time. i'd ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a letter from the national task force to end sexual and domestic violence against women opposing the desantis-roby amendment. the chair: does the lady request -- the request will be covered by general leave. ms. edwards: thank you. and thank you, again. as a founder and former executive director of the national network to end domestic violence, i join the network of every state domestic violence coalition and the national task force to end sexual and domestic violence against women in opposing this amendment. this issue is really very simple. often, too often of cases of domestic violence law enforcement show up at a home, they can't figure out what happened, both parties are arrested and down the line both plea to misdemeanor domestic violence offenses. it happens all the tim

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 perfectly clear on what is occurring on the house floor today. the majority is unfortunately playing politics with the lives, safety and security of the american people. the ideologues are holding funding for homeland security department hostage here today. that is not right. and they would rather deport dreamers, the kids and their parents rather than fund the department of homeland security. in the wake of the recent paris tragedy we need to remain vigilant with smart enforcement policies that protect americans. the department of homeland security plays a central ro

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 perfectly clear on what is occurring on the house floor today. the majority is unfortunately playing politics with the lives, safety and security of the american people. the ideologues are holding funding for homeland security department hostage here today. that is not right. and they would rather deport dreamers, the kids and their parents rather than fund the department of homeland security. in the wake of the recent paris tragedy we need to remain vigilant with smart enforcement policies that protect americans. the department of homeland security plays a central ro

ms. lofgren, we're delighted you're here. ms. lofgren, you been here for a couple of hours i'd like to defer to you first. of i'll just go back and forth. we'll go ms. lofgren then mr. aderholt, then mr. ambiguity less mr. castro mr. barletta, you will be the clean-up batter tonight. pretty good thing for a pretty pitcher, pitchers normally go last in the battle order anyway. so nothing new here. we're delighted that you're here. ms. lofgren, you're now recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. noting that my friend judge carter and ranking member nita lowey spoke on the underlying legislation, i will limit my comments to the five amendments that were released on friday night by the majority. the first amendment offered by representatived aderholt mulvaney and barletta is designed to -- [inaudible] l all but one of the executive actions from taking place. this includes the deferred action for parental accountability initiative that would offer temporary or protection from de30ration to certain parents of u.s. citizens and the expans

ms. lofgren. the chair: the gentlewoman from california is recognized for four minutes. ms. lofgren: mr. speaker, some claim the president's actions are unconstitutionalle. that's not true. and i ask -- unconstitutional. that's not true. and i ask unanimous consent to place in the record a letter signed by 135 law professors and confirmed by four former chief counsels for immigration about why his action was lawful. the chair: without objection, so ordered. ms. lofgren: i note also that a lawsuit is currently pending to challenge the constitutionality. why don't republicans just wait and see what the judicial branch has to say, what they decide? but the amendments being offered are poison pills and should be defeated. the first amendment is meant to block all but one of the president's actions on immigration. this includes a temporary protection from deportation for parents of u.s. citizens, an expansion of temporary relief for people brought to the country as kids. this would break apart families, hurt more communities deport parents of u.s. citizens, and send thousands of a

ms. lofgren you brought up a point. we talked about this before. that other administrations have done this. all i will say to that is if it was wrong it's wrong now, it was wrong then. and to simply point back to a wrong action to make it right now is not the way to play this out. >> would the gentleman yield? we worked often on the judiciary committee. my point would be it wasn't wrong when eisenhower, reagan, bush took certain actions any more than it is now. it wasn't wrong before and it isn't wrong now. >> we just disagree. when it is done unilaterally no matter who does it. and i think that goes back to my point i tried to make earlier. this to me and many others on our side of the aisle is simply a matter that should concern all of congress both sides of the aisle about the state of this body doing what it was elected and constitutionally required to do. and that is do our job. that is work as hard as make the hard votes and hard decisions. and when we're sidetracked by this it makes it very difficult to have these conversations when you have

ms. lofgren. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewomseiz. mslon: a unanimous consent to insert my statement in the record instead of attacking women's access to health care we should vote for bigger paychecks and better infrastructure. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. degette: mr. speaker, i'm now pleased to yield for purposes of a unanimous consent request the gentlelady from california, ms. waters. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewomaisecnid. ms. waters: i ask unanimous consent to insert my statement in the record that the house should vote for bigger paychecks and better infrastructure instead of constantly attacking women's access to health care. the speaker pro tempore: with objectn. ms. degette: madam speaker i'm now pleased to yield for purposes of a unanimous consent request to the gentlelady from california, miss spehr. -- ms. speier. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's rgiaec ms. speier: i thank the gentlelady from colorado. i, too, ask unanimous consent to insert my statement in the record that instead of a

ms. lofgren. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewomseiz. mslon: a unanimous consent to insert my statement in the record instead of attacking women's access to health care we should vote for bigger paychecks and better infrastructure. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. degette: mr. speaker, i'm now pleased to yield for purposes of a unanimous consent request the gentlelady from california, ms. waters. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewomaisecnid. ms. waters: i ask unanimous consent to insert my statement in the record that the house should vote for bigger paychecks and better infrastructure instead of constantly attacking women's access to health care. the speaker pro tempore: with objectn. ms. degette: madam speaker i'm now pleased to yield for purposes of a unanimous consent request to the gentlelady from california, miss spehr. -- ms. speier. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's rgiaec ms. speier: i thank the gentlelady from colorado. i, too, ask unanimous consent to insert my statement in the record that instead of a