We have paralysis moving this funding through the Northern Triangle because people don't know what the president wants.

Now you are about to unveil a long-awaited peace agreement that you have drafted, no doubt with demands to follow, that the Palestinians be grateful for that plan and regard the U.S. as a fair-minded arbiter who respects their aspirations.

I don't know how that lesson is lost--it appears to me, honestly, Mr. Secretary, that it has been lost on the Palestinian community.

One of the guiding schools of thought on all sides I think, for years, has been the need for the U.S. to facilitate direct negotiations between the two parties.

Our foreign policy and our immigration policy in recent years has focused on these countries by virtue of the migrant flows.

And this is the path forward, you are confident, to totally marginalize and alienate the Palestinian side?

How could anyone think cutting off that aid is in this country's interest?

Mr. President, I have a request for one committee to meet during today's session of the Senate. It has the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the…

Well, ladies and gentlemen, yesterday I took a position that I think some people consider to be unpopular--particularly some of my friends back in my State--that I thought I would come back and explain. It has to do with the President's…

You lied on financial documents.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor the life of Dr. Manderline Scales of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. During Black History Month, we especially remember the enduring contributions of great Americans like Dr. Scales, who is one of four Black…

So, in short, no one benefits from the backlog and that is why we have taken such significant steps to try to address it.

We have seen an increase in asylum claims. They have doubled in the past couple of years.

The number-one need, as it has been, as the President has outlined, as this committee is aware, is more immigration judges, increased immigration judges.

Plans like the Green New Deal would certainly be a death blow to our economy.

If done effectively, having a lead federal agency to coordinate disaster response across federal agencies and with state and local emergency management agencies could prove useful to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of disaster…

Asylum claims are individual; they are very much fact-specific.

It is twofold, but it is perhaps two sides of the same coin. Individuals who are here who have no claim to stay are allowed to remain longer in violation of the law than they otherwise should have.