And it is also my understanding that it was authored by leadership and the three sponsors of the border bill, which your team gratefully helped us create, that we would have an open-amendment process. So would you help me understand why…

Senator Graham-- The PRESIDING OFFICER. My colleagues will address your comments to me.

I think it is probably useful to take a couple of moments and do a quick refresher on how Senate process and procedure work. So, in the U.S. Senate, when a bill is introduced and when it comes to the floor, we have to do what is called a…

the Federal Government has failed Arizona and other border States for decades. And for decades, Congress has done nothing about it. As we have lurched from crisis to crisis, Arizona and other border States have always been hit the hardest…

Thank you. Senator, are you aware that the only way to offer an amendment on a bill being considered in the U.S. Senate is to first pass the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed--that being the vote we took yesterday at 1:59…

OK. Thank you. Thank you. Senator, I was just listening to your speech, and you mentioned that you thought the bill that we had drafted was a good start but not enough. I am wondering if you would remind us how you voted yesterday on the…

I introduced H.R. 5585.

CBP officials have publicly stated these vast areas of Federal land provide transnational criminal organizations significant opportunities to cross their products.

When ports of entry are closed, trade and commerce suffer.

Requiring asylum seekers to seek legal status to immigrate at a Consulate of the US State Department and to have robust enforcement of our laws at the border would restore safety and an environment only conducive to legal commerce in our…

I do want to take time, at this point right now, to thank them for all their work and being on the front lines for us every single day.

Thank you, Chairman Tiffany, Chairman Westerman, and all of my colleagues for being here in Sierra Vista to examine what is happening firsthand.

I stand here today as the border crisis is devastating my State. Just last week, Nogales officers seized 2.1 million fentanyl pills at a port of entry. Just last week, Border Patrol agents recovered in the Tucson desert enough fentanyl to…

we have to do something different because we are changing lives every day in this country because we are doing nothing.

We were proud to pass that bill through the U.S. House of Representatives last week with bipartisan support.

They are a result of a combination of the broken immigration system, a lack of desire by the Federal Government to enforce the laws.

I think showing up is a great example of the interest and the true care that we have for this issue.

As anyone in southeastern Arizona knows well, the border crisis and crises are not a new phenomenon for us.