This is a process that was created by Congress. There's a legal standard.

I think it is a terrible bill. It saddens me to say that because I have deep respect for the chairman.

I think suggesting that the real answer is to export our responsibility to do that to another country or to make asylum seeking so difficult because you cannot work and you must stay in Mexico that people will not apply for it is not the…

Again, I reiterate the fact that the children under Trump were snatched away from their families, purposely, to discourage them from coming.

I abhor the abuse of children. I have been at the border, and I have held unaccompanied children--desperately sent, because they come from desperate circumstances.

Many outlets'--and some of my colleagues have latched onto this--headlines say that the Biden Administration has lost 85,000 children.

Let's speak with one voice and say America has an asylum system and individuals have a right to petition for it.

The asylum system of the United States was once described as the crown jewel of America's humanitarian effort.

Madam President, I am pleased to introduce the bipartisan Strengthening Research in Adult Education Act with my colleague, Senator Young. We are in urgent need of identifying and disseminating innovative and effective methods for…

The United States is a country of 350 million with the world's largest economy and a proud tradition of accepting refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants.

I think it runs counter to good economic policy, good social policy.

The things I can control or the things that the United States can control are its emissions.

And to quote you the cause of climate change is rising energy consumption using fossil fuels; correct?

And around here, there's an entire political party dedicated to protecting them as they pollute for free.

You claim that renewable energy is always expensive.

It's pretty basic economics that negative externalities belong in the price, and therefore are a subsidy.

To export our responsibility or our privilege really of being this great humanitarian force in the world is a terrible message.

Madam President, today, I am introducing important environmental literacy legislation, the No Child Left Inside Act, along with Senator Collins and Senator Merkley and Congressman Sarbanes. Our bipartisan, bicameral bill focuses on the…