Immigrants make our country better.

It is time that Congress does its job and engages in bipartisan compromise and finds a real fix.

We have eight million unfilled jobs in the country.

I am delighted the Presiding Officer is in the Chair for this conversation about Judge Kato Crews. Today, I rise in strong support of President Biden's nominee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, Judge Kato Crews…

We just ended our nation's longest war. We should not be pulling but it pulled into another one.

for the information of the Senate, on behalf of the leader, I ask that yesterday's order with respect to the Crews nomination be executed at 11:30 a.m. today. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). Without objection, it is so ordered.

Their border bill is a fantasy.

I have a great confidence in this administration to do that in the right and reasonable way.

The status quo is absolutely unacceptable, and it should be unacceptable to all of us.

The response to such a significant challenge shouldn't be to demonize immigrants, but it also shouldn't be to refuse to compromise.

today, the Senate will consider President Biden's nominee, Judge Kato Crews, for the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, as our senior Senator so ably represented. I am not a lawyer, so I bring a slightly different…

So, we can talk here about deferred maintenance, but we are only repeating the problem by our appropriations decisions.

I will say I would be remiss before providing some opening remarks if I didn't recognize my good friend from Colorado on his recent announcement regarding his retirement from this august body.

I still have concerns about transparency within NPS.

I think the first observation is that the reason we are talking about deferred maintenance is because we deferred it to start with, and that is a result of chronic underfunding of the National Park Service over a long, long period of time.

The testimony touches on several issues highlighting the effect on concessionaires who bring in $1.5 billion in revenue for the National Park Service annually.

the $433 million in budget cuts that have been proposed by my Republican colleagues.

I certainly couldn't agree more with my colleague from New Mexico as she articulated the many benefits of GAOA, and the way in which the large-scale investments are supporting the ever-growing popularity of parks and public lands across…