Their first question is, 'When can I go to work? Anything. Tell me, Senator. Anything.'

We've got to get off dead center and do something.

We're going to import more food than we export because it's so much cheaper to farm in other places than it is here.

I really believe it's a test. A test for Congress.

It's a national security risk. Our shortage of farm and food workers has forced us to rely on other countries to meet our food needs.

I believe that the United States has benefited greatly from immigration and the immigrants who arrive both economically and culturally.

Congress should first and foremost regularize the status of those who are in the United States but lack an immigration status.

Everything's connected, my friends.

I believe, based on my impression of your performance today, that you are in it for the right reasons.

I really believe it's a test. A test for Congress.

If you say there's enough American workers to make agriculture work in America, you don't know what you're talking about.

Those are poverty wages.

For more than three decades, Congress has failed to modernize our Nation's immigration system.

To wait for 30 years and to watch the situation grow as desperate as it has, not only at the border, but with businesses and farms represented here today.

When it comes to securing our Nation's food supply chain, immigration reform is a top priority.

I am so deeply honored to introduce today's historic nominee, Ms. Tanya Bradsher, who is nominated to be Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

It would have never happened in the Army. It happens all the time in the Senate, though, unfortunately.

We're going to import more food than we export because it's so much cheaper to farm in other places than it is here.