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DHS has a quarter-million Federal employees--a quarter-million. ICE has 20,000 of that quarter-million. And the argument has been about those 20,000 somewhat, but the problem is those 20,000 also do a pretty vital job for the country. Let…
my friend from Hawaii is actually correct on the color of money issue. There shouldn't be a difference. Those are taxpayer dollars, all of them, so the taxpayers should have accountability in that, and there shouldn't be a limitation on…
I appreciate my friend Raphael Warnock coming to the floor, the Senator from Georgia, and being able to talk about these issues. The challenge of this is that the request has been made to say: Let's reform ICE. You referred to law…
250 years ago--actually, 250 years ago this summer--we wrote a letter to good King George III, and in that letter we now call the Declaration of Independence, we complained about foreign intervention into the activities of Americans, the…
It feels like ``Groundhog Day'' here on the Senate floor, trying to bear with all the problems. I wish we could all get in one room and be able to actually talk to each other like human beings and people rather than just rant. Fourteen …
I appreciate the colloquy and the dialogue here on this issue because this is an important issue. We have to break through this logjam. We have people across the country that are TSA, that are Coast Guard, that are cyber security…
Mr. Speaker, we have heard a lot today about the Federal workers who are impacted by this lapse in funding. I have to say I am surprised to hear so many of my Republican colleagues suddenly express such ardent concern for the fate of…
it is the end of February, but it sure feels like the beginning because it feels like Groundhog Day. We are in yet another partial government shutdown. We are in it right now. What is interesting is we just had our last vote of the week…
Madam Speaker, today I urge my colleagues to support S. 3705, the Semiquincentennial Congressional Time Capsule Act. This is the Senate companion to H.R. 6243, introduced by my colleagues, Representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman, Robert…
I rise to congratulate the College of San Mateo's football team, the Bulldogs, on becoming back-to-back champions. Their dramatic 28-27 victory in the California Community College Athletic Association Championship was their impressive…
I will begin by thanking the President of the United States. He supported each and every one of these tranches of bills that have been brought to the floor during this critical month where we completed the appropriations process. We would…
this body disagrees on a lot of things-- a lot. But we should have at least one thing we can agree on. It is pretty simple. Kids are different. You get three kids in a room and all three of those kids are very, very different. I know. I…
However, then we watched unfold an unspeakable tragedy in Minnesota: the unspeakable loss of a young woman who was killed. We have heard from my colleagues from Minnesota not just about the killing of Renee Nicole Good, but of the other…
Mr. Chairman, I want to begin by thanking the gentlewoman, the distinguished ranking member of the full committee. There are a lot of things we disagree on, but we do not disagree on the importance of the power of the purse and the Article…
Long Islanders face some of the highest tax burdens anywhere in the Nation. At the same time, America, with our $38 trillion in debt, needs to start to freeze and cut spending wherever possible. When we deal with these financial issues…
I stand before you, along with my colleague, Representative Keith Self of the Texas Third Congressional District, to honor Colonel Chuck DeBellevue, United States Air Force retired, an American patriot whose extraordinary courage…
obviously like all of us here, I am here to pay tribute to our dear departed friend, Doug LaMalfa. I first got to know Doug before I ever met him because I had so many Indian Tribes from California calling me, saying that we have got this…
I could not have a better working partner than my good friend from Connecticut. I am very proud that this bill is, as my friend said, bipartisan. This has been in negotiation at every level, and the ranking member and I have worked hard to…