I have met with some of the folks on the ground there who, as all of us are concerned about continued shortages in manpower and labor.

Please do hear the resolve from my colleagues talking about robust action, not rhetoric...

It is obviously an issue of concern for us as we look forward to kind of keeping a close eye on this as it develops.

I think that it is very clear that I am very focused on one of the principles of immigration reform as family reunification.

I think family-based immigration is essential to ensuring the continued vitality of the American economy...

We should not get tunnel vision and forget the human element of immigration.

I think that immigration reform should be guided by certain principles that reflect our values.

Well, for example, in my own community there are World War II Filipino veterans who fought alongside our troops...

Now, this is an issue that I know that we have been attempting to address for over a decade...

We are confronted with a broken immigration system, with 11 million undocumented people in our country.

I certainly agree that we should not educate foreign students and then send them away to work for foreign competitors.

This is no way for us to fix this broken system.

I think it is abundantly clear that we need to avoid sequestration because the harm to our military, as well as on the civilian side, and the non-military spending will be quite devastating.

We strongly support increasing to effectively a universal background check system.

this is a self-inflicted situation and brought about by political gridlock. So it is going to take us sitting here, along with the President, to get out of this gridlock.

It is too easy for prohibited persons to evade the background check requirement.

For the Americans who lost their lives in Benghazi-- Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty--they were heroes and they represented our country proudly.

I think that probably leads to a more heightened priority for those areas in terms of the safety of our people.