I really encourage the Senate Finance Committee and others in the Senate and in Congress to really help push the U.S. to do better in our own areas.

Your budget request for $1.2 billion for investments in modernizing ports of entry, more security and technology, will this amount of money improve our ability to counter fentanyl and other illicit drugs coming through our ports?

What we have decided to do is to focus on the 80 percent where we agree and come back and focus on the other 20 percent some other day.

This was a Democratic bill signed by a Republican president, a product of passion and compassion, not partisanship.

I’ve been saying for a long, long time: The abuse of the filibuster is pretty overwhelming.

By the authority vested in me as President, I hereby determine that it is important to furnish assistance in an amount of up to $100 million from the U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for unexpected urgent refugee and…

I think it`s going to get done.

I would go back to that where you have to maintain the floor. You have to stand there and talk and hold the floor.

Joe Biden gave a very, very strong speech on voting rights, and he basically said it’s a fundamental moral issue of our time. And if the only reason that bill fails is because of the archaic Senate filibuster rules, Joe Biden just can’t be…

Yes, Jonathan, that`s what I`ve been following in this voting rights issue in the Senate.

I think they`re going to try to argue that this is an example of what government can do.

The 21st century Jim Crow assault is real. It`s unrelenting. And we`re going to challenge it vigorously. We`re facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That`s not hyperbole, since the Civil War.

We follow the science. What`s happening now is all the major scientific operations in this country and a 25-person group we put together are looking at all possibilities of what`s happening now. If you are vaccinated, you are sick, if…

I think the frustration for Biden, of course, is that he needs to get this virus under control in order to get done anything else he wants to get done, right?

Look, the American public, you can`t stop them from voting. They tried last time. More people voted last time than any time in American history in the middle of the worst pandemic in American history. More people did. And they showed up…

To me, this is simple, this is with subversion. It`s the most dangerous threat to voting and the integrity of free and fair elections in our history.

But I remain hopeful that this administration, Joe Biden, president, will come to his senses, get away from the sentimentalism of the past of how the Senate used to work and how the members used to consort with each other and work things…

There could become a tipping point, essentially, where he does need to put more of his attention more squarely back on the pandemic.