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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Sep 17, 2018

I think we can learn lessons there. For one, you hire enough judges to handle the caseload.

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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Sep 17, 2018

We do not have enough facts to even consider indefinite detention of families--even if it were the right thing to do, which I do not think it is.

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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Sep 17, 2018

I would much prefer to do the hard work of getting the resources in place for the infrastructure of a judicial system as it applies to immigration that could work in a timely way.

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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Sep 17, 2018

Well, it seems to me that the vast majority of these cases are coming from a handful of countries. It seems to me that it would not be beyond reasonable to try to organize these courts hearings around countries, especially if you had…

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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Sep 17, 2018

But here is my point, Mr. Albence. What I am trying to say is if we know monitoring gets them to court and if the problem is after they know they are not going to get asylum, they no longer show up, it seems to me that we need to focus…

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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Sep 17, 2018

Most of us would much rather spend the money on this than building family prisons.

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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Sep 17, 2018

We cannot lose sight that they are families and that they need to be dealt with as families.

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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Sep 17, 2018

Well, it seems to me that this is a court appearance problem, and we ought to figure out a way to make court appearances more likely.

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Emanuel Cleaver
@emanuelcleaver· Democratic · MO· Sep 13, 2018

I regrettably missed votes on Thursday, September 13, 2018. I had intended to vote ``yes'' on rollcall vote 399. PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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Blaine Luetkemeyer
@blaineluetkemeyer· Republican · MO· Sep 12, 2018

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Rothfus), who is vice chair of the House Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee, and the gentlewoman from Ohio (Mrs. Beatty) for their work on this legislation. For years, the…

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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Sep 12, 2018

So this was a quid pro quo. We are going to give you pieces of the production in return for an order for 100 F-35s because the more we build, the cheaper they get.

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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Sep 12, 2018

The more that our leadership that is actually involved in these programs is focused on this is what I can deal with from a risk standpoint and this is what I cannot and focus on requirements, I honestly think that--businesses have been…

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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Sep 12, 2018

His commitment to public service, his dedication to the defense of our country, and his efforts to promote American values were unparalleled.

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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Sep 12, 2018

Terrorism continues to evolve as a threat and requires innovative solutions to confront and prevent it.

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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Sep 12, 2018

The United States has made enormous progress in preventing another 9/11-style attack, but threats to the country remain.

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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Sep 12, 2018

So now we have this bizarre situation; Russia, who we know has conducted cyber warfare against our country, is beginning to put an air defense system in the same country that is building the cockpit displays and the center fuselage on our…

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