Many of my Republican colleagues... simply see the issue of immigration as a political cudgel.

Our country saw the highest level of apprehensions at the border in over a decade in 2019.

Let me assure my colleagues non-citizens arriving at our southwest border don't care who the President of the United States is.

They want to distract us, to be focused on something other than the fact that they have successfully mounted this long-term war against the right of women to control their own bodies, and that they’re on the verge of taking away a…

That`s right, because we passed in 2018, we passed HB40, which removed the trigger language that was in our law that would have reverted Illinois back to being an anti choice state in the event of a reversal of Roe v Wade.

This isn`t just about access to abortion. I mean, that, in itself, is more than enough to mount the campaign to codify Roe into law. But think about things that are -- that are dependent on Roe.

And they’re coming for birth control pills next, guys. They’re coming for that. Count on it.

If they vote against it, then we just keep putting it on the floor for votes, vote after vote after vote, to make it clear to the American people that what they need to do is vote this November and make sure that we have a majority in the…

The women who are most likely to be affected by this are women who are -- who are off the lower socioeconomic spectrum, who can’t afford to take days off from work to drive 1,000 miles for access to reproductive choice.

So this is really going to be a political issue in 2022. I think they`re going to see a tsunami of support for pro-choice candidates all across destination like you saw in 2017 leading into the 2018 elections.

I do fear that, and I -- because they have been as good as their word when it comes to the state legislatures.

We cannot let this happen across the country.

It says that they're the dogs that caught the car basically. I don't think that they wanted this result right now, if I were a strategist in their councils, this would have landed very badly, because they know how divisive this issue is.

Today millions of Americans woke up fearing that their essential freedoms under the constitution were at risk. If the Supreme Court ultimately decides to overturn the landmark case of Roe v. Wade, then it will not only reverse nearly 50…

I think that one of the things people are sensing right now is there is a sense of chaos out there. There's a sense that things are disorderly.

Those of us who've been in the business of military politics over a period of time are considered to be wise forecasters of what's going to happen and sometimes we are and sometimes we aren't.

let me just close by saying that last week, the Senate did a great job filling another critical law enforcement vacancy in Chicago. We confirmed Oak Park Police Chief LaDon Reynolds to be our Northern District's next U.S. marshal. That…

let me say a word about gun violence because in the city of Chicago, which I am honored to represent, it breaks my heart what is happening in that city. Not last weekend but the weekend before, there were 37 shootings in the course of a…