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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jul 9, 2014

As we speak, what percentage of children that meet the adjudication process are sent home, and what percentage stay in the United States, currently?

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jul 9, 2014

The Obama administration, as well as previous administrations, have failed to secure our borders.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jul 9, 2014

So even if we gave the money that has been requested here, $3.7 billion, it doesn't solve the problem in any way.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jul 9, 2014

I personally have no confidence that pouring billions of dollars into our current immigration system will solve the crisis.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jul 9, 2014

We are here because our Nation's immigration system is broken.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jul 9, 2014

Well, I know money, it is a humanitarian problem, but it is an immigration problem, a big one for this country.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jul 9, 2014

We've spent billions of dollars on immigration enforcement, but to no avail.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jul 9, 2014

From past experience, we know that detention and rapid removal, following all appropriate due process, is an important deterrent to illegal crossing.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jul 9, 2014

we are against human trafficking for adults, children, everything like that.

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Bradley Byrne
@bradleybyrne· AL· Jul 8, 2014

Everywhere I go in my district, from the grocery store to town hall meetings, I hear the same thing over and over again. This President will not stay within the bounds of the Constitution of the United States or the laws passed by this…

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jul 7, 2014

Is that because of the electronic growth, the use of electronics as we have seen a technological change?

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Terri Sewell
@terrisewell· Democratic · AL· Jun 24, 2014

I stand in support of the Fiscal Year 2014 Intelligence Authorization Act. The annual authorization act is the most substantial oversight mechanism Congress has over the intelligence community. Most of the work within the intelligence…

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jun 24, 2014

We need outside special prosecutors to do it because it is important, not only to this Administration but to the functioning of Government, period.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jun 24, 2014

I voted for the Voting Rights Act extension 8 years ago in this Congress, but I knew then that Section 5 was problematic.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jun 24, 2014

Isn't it time--isn't it past time--for us to get past you looking at internally, even by an inspector general, and get a special prosecutor to restore the integrity of the IRS, whatever the cost, wherever it leads?

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jun 24, 2014

I have strong concerns with the Council, which, I believe, was one of Dodd-Frank's ways of preserving and codifying preferential treatment for large institutions with any hand in financial markets.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jun 24, 2014

We will not accept racial discrimination and voting discrimination in our State, and the Federal Government is also there and prepared to step in.

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