ms. lujan grisham: that's right. ms. slaughter: i don't know how they could live with themselves -- i've taken your child away and locked them up. i don't have any questions. we've asked them all, as far as i'm concerned. i agree with you, it's certainly what our leader said, it's been talked about and talked about and talked about. people are dying. and i imagine a lot of employers wonder -- everybody at school is wondering where the kids went. we need to encourage legislation. i will again -- i'm so sorry. i feel so helpless we who can do something. i feel that about the whole country. i feel we are all obligated to straighten this all out because we work in the place where that's being done. t the emperor has no clothes sort of thing going on in america today that's very troubling to me and i think this is a large part of it because we do know that the president of the united states ran almost his entire campaign on talking about immigration and building walls and separating people, showing absolutely no compassion wh

ms. lujan grisham: i assure you that was not -- the issue at hand. mr. sessions: i don't doubt that. o there's something deeper. ms. lujan grisham: i want an opportunity to brag on your colleague. i know you are busy. i want to do that. mr. curbelo has not stopped working to protect dreamers. and despite disagreements about other issues, to his credit, and to ours, the entire caucus and myself, his ideas and his stalwart support here have not gone unnoticed, i hope, by both chambers and by many members of our great body. thank you for raising that. mr. sessions: all i'm saying is this inclusiveness goes a couple different ways. we can't always get there. you get my point. and i accept yours also. mr. curbelo is a dear member of our conference. and as a member of this body. we're pleased to have him. the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: thank you. i also point out that i arrived here this morning at 8:03 and ms. pelosi was already in the chair. by my reckoning she was willing to spend and did spend about 2 1/2 hours with us today. i think our friends on both sides, particularly on y

ms. grisham -- dreamers. lujangrisham's amendment is not offered, and that is to at the very least provide temporary protective status to those who are in the dreamer status under the national laws of this country, the same as we have for haitians and hondurans and nicaraguans, we could at least until march, if that's when we claim we're going to have it, at least not before the end of the -- these young people and not allow them to be in the lurch losing their status. it's disgusting situation that we find ourselves in. rather than go on, mr. chairman, i'll leave it at that and not cause you all to have to listen to me. i am pretty damn mad about what we're doing to the dreamers. mr. session: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. thank you very much. we appreciate your help. the distinguished gentleman from alabama, mr. byrne. i would like to personally apologize to the gentleman. i did make a quick decision and i did ask that the minority leader stay for dr. burgess. that was not meant against you. i

ms. lujan grisham, chair of the hispanic caucus, think of the dreamers as a discreet piece that needs protection now and not wait for the entire comprehensive immigration reform to be resolved before we deal with this emergency. just as we -- chip. nine million children are depending on chip. but we are not waiting until we revise the whole health care system to revise chip nor did when we. when we passed chip, it was before the affordable care act had passed. but let me tell you why it's really important for this to happen now. unfortunately, and really i was pleased that our speaker registered his disappoint -- disagreement with president took when he -- when he the action he did in regard to daca in september. when he did that and said i'll give congress until march to pass a law, what he didn't understand is he was putting these dreamers at a distinct disadvantage. every day nearly over 100, 120-some daca recipients, daca eligible lose their status. that means if they're working or if they're -- whatever they're doing, they lose their status to do that in our country. over 10,000 have lost s