Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015

Floor Speech

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Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Chair, we need to be clear about what is happening
here today. The Republican Majority in the House is putting our
national security at risk by threatening to shut down the Department of
Homeland in order to advance their mean-spirited, anti-immigrant
agenda.

House Republicans don't like President Obama. We get it. The Majority
also disagrees with the actions the President has taken on immigration.

Look, if you disagree with the President on immigration, let's hear
your plan to fix our nation's broken immigration system. Bring your
bill to the Floor and let's debate it. But we shouldn't let down our
guard on national security by playing games with the bill that funds
border security, immigrations and customs enforcement, FEMA, and the
Coast Guard.

We have a bipartisan Homeland Security funding bill that could easily
pass the House and Senate. We could pass that bill today and the
President would sign it into law. Instead, the Republican Majority is
preparing to load up the bill with a number of divisive, poison pill
amendments that the President will never agree to. Unless House
Republicans change course, funding for the entire Department of
Homeland Security will cut off on February 27.

So the message to my Republican colleagues is clear. Stop playing
politics with our national security and send the President a clean
Homeland Security funding bill.

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