Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024
Floor Speech
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Mr. NORMAN. Madam Chair, my amendment reduces the salary of Kristie Canegallo, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, to $1.
A little background on who she is:
She has served as Chief of Staff at DHS since January 2022.
She recently took on the role of Deputy Secretary in July of this year.
Her job is to oversee the agency and work to advance the Department's mission and organizational priorities.
Her salary in 2022 was $183,100.
As stated, her job is to oversee and enforce the mission of DHS, which is to safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values.
Dereliction of duty, as this is simply not the case.
She is the number two individual at DHS. Her job is to assist the priorities of Mayorkas in securing our homeland, our values, and our people. She has simply been asleep at the switch and has not done the job.
Our homeland is less secure now than it was when she came into this role. In her first year in her role at DHS, over 2.76 million illegal individuals crossed the border. These were just the ones that they came in contact with.
In addition, 1.4 million individuals have been encountered, according to DHS, since January 1 of 2023.
We are witnessing an invasion of our homeland before our very eyes, and my Democratic colleagues are acting like it is a normal Wednesday with business as usual.
Is this effective leadership? No, it is not. This is a crisis in this country. This is an invasion. It is against our Constitution. It is against our core values that this country was built on.
Thus, that is the reason I am asking to cut the salary to $1, and I reserve the balance of my time.
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Mr. NORMAN. Madam Chair, as we look at the challenges this country faces, we look at the reasons why our border is unsecure, why our national security is at risk, and it is because of the inaction of people in prominent roles such as Ms. Canegallo.
The only reason that she is in the job is for political reasons, which is to keep the power of the Democratic Party.
These illegals are getting drivers' licenses, they are getting Social Security numbers, and it is completely against everything that this country stands for.
For that reason, I hope Members will support this.
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Mr. NORMAN. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
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Mr. NORMAN. Madam Chair, this amendment reduces the salary of Kimberly O'Connor, executive secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, to $1.
Her role is executive secretary of DHS where she oversees the management of written communication intended for and originated by the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary of DHS.
Why should we implement the Holman rule regarding her salary? She cosigned a letter led by the House Oversight Committee from November 2, 2022, to Secretary Mayorkas about the abject failures at the southern border.
In her letter it was stated that: We have written DHS 15 times this Congress to conduct oversight over the border crisis. Again, we request documents and information to understand the Biden administration's plans, if any, to secure the border.
Her role is to manage written correspondence for Mayorkas. She can't bother to do her job and give timely and adequate responses about the abject failures at the border, so why do our tax dollars deserve to go to pay her salary?
She continues to not give the committee and Members answers to their questions. Failure to get us answers from DHS on the border is unacceptable, and it is creating a crisis at the border.
Madam Chair, I urge the cutting of her salary, and I reserve the balance of my time.
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Mr. NORMAN. Madam Chair, I urge that her salary be cut, and I yield back the balance of my time.
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Mr. NORMAN. Madam Chair, my amendment reduces the salary of Blas Nunez-Neto, assistant secretary for border and immigration policy, to $1.
He has worked at DHS since 2021. He served as an assistant secretary for border and immigration policy.
The reason to implement the Holman rule to reduce his salary is dereliction of duty to uphold the mission of DHS, to safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values.
The border and our homeland have become less secure in his capacity of border policy at DHS.
Considering these facts of the crisis and invasion at our border, we think this individual is inadequately doing his job. Why should our tax dollars continue to pay him?
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Mr. NORMAN. Madam Chair, I urge the reduction of the salary of this individual to secure our borders, and I yield back the balance of my time.
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