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pascrell aye. mr. ryan aye. ms. moore aye. ms. castor aye. mr. mcdermott aye. ms. lee aye. mr. cicilline aye. mr. jeffries aye. mr. pocan aye. mr. hoffman aye. mr. car difficult. mr. blumenauer aye. mr. schrader aye. mrs. blackburn no. mr. chairman. mr. chairman no. mr. chairman, on that vote the ayes are 16, the noes are 22. >> ayes 16, noes being 22, the amendment is not agreed to. are there further amendments in tier 1? >> mr. chairman, i have an amendment. >> the gentlelady from wisconsin. the clerk -- does the gentlelady from have an amendment? the clerk will designate the amendment. the staff will distribute copies. >> mr. chairman, an amendment offered by ms. moore to protect our vulnerable. >> the gentlelady is recognized for nine minutes. >> thank you so much, mr. chairman. you know, it's always great to serve on the budget committee and it's oft repeated mantra is that budgeted are -- budgets are statements of morality and our principles. i was really happy to see, starting on page 27, that we had a section called safety net strengthened. now, you can't make this stuf

which is to say that ,n early part of the 2000's between closing of san diego and llosing off el pascrell -- eo so much of the apprehensions were occurring in the tucson sector. people were under the impression that it was not under any sort of control. it caused some real political push back. people were legitimately concerned about what was born on. i was concerned. i was firing off letters to be .resident and to our delegation when i came in, i said, we are going to focus on this and shut that down. from its peak until now, we have had 75% to a 90% reduction of apprehensions along that arizona-mexico border. point, public procession begins to change back. more and more people are saying, there is security down there. you'll lot is being appreciated. of law is- the rule being appreciated. when you live in a border state, you need an immigration system really works. families are going on both sides of the borders. people are going back and forth. that is the kind of system you want to have when you have a good sense of who is leaving, who is coming, where they are going, how long they ar

let's turn to congressman bill pascrel of new jersey and our other guests.at to have you all with us tonight. you first. i mean, this is amazing. boehner says the democrats didn't have a plan but they obviously did. are they just counting on people not paying attention to this stuff? >> i think they're in their own universe. you pointed out and it's been pointed out over and over again the president has laid many plans at their door step to see what they might be willing to do. our colleague congressman chris van holland introduced a substitute in the house side and, quite frankly, wouldn't even allow it to come up. they really want to go down this road of the sequester and, by the way, if the speaker doesn't know how bad this would be all he needs to do is listen to ben bernanke about what kind of an effect this would have on economic recovery. all he has to do is listen to the national association of business economists who said the sequestration is a bad idea. i would suggest to him that he talk to one of the 25,000 women who is going to be unwilling, una