Mr. President, I think it is probably useful to take a couple of moments and do a quick refresher on how Senate process and procedure work. So, in the U.S. Senate, when a bill is introduced and when it comes to the floor, we have to do…

Senator Graham-- The PRESIDING OFFICER. My colleagues will address your comments to me.

Mr. President, the Federal Government has failed Arizona and other border States for decades. And for decades, Congress has done nothing about it. As we have lurched from crisis to crisis, Arizona and other border States have always been…

And it is also my understanding that it was authored by leadership and the three sponsors of the border bill, which your team gratefully helped us create, that we would have an open-amendment process. So would you help me understand why…

OK. Thank you. Thank you. Senator, I was just listening to your speech, and you mentioned that you thought the bill that we had drafted was a good start but not enough. I am wondering if you would remind us how you voted yesterday on the…

Thank you. Now, Senator, I know that you have been here quite a bit longer than me, but it is my understanding that in order to get to the portion of the bill where we offer amendments on the floor, we first have to pass the motion to…

Is it too much to ask that the farmers of southern Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas be able to raise their crops and families without being overrun by illegal immigrants and drug runners?

we have to do something different because we are changing lives every day in this country because we are doing nothing.

Requiring asylum seekers to seek legal status to immigrate at a Consulate of the US State Department and to have robust enforcement of our laws at the border would restore safety and an environment only conducive to legal commerce in our…

We were proud to pass that bill through the U.S. House of Representatives last week with bipartisan support.

CBP officials have publicly stated these vast areas of Federal land provide transnational criminal organizations significant opportunities to cross their products.

I always say that at home it is not. At home, we have mayors on both sides of the aisle...

I do want to take time, at this point right now, to thank them for all their work and being on the front lines for us every single day.

When ports of entry are closed, trade and commerce suffer.

I introduced H.R. 5585.

Thank you, Chairman Tiffany, Chairman Westerman, and all of my colleagues for being here in Sierra Vista to examine what is happening firsthand.

this is not a partisan issue at home. At the border it is not. In Washington, where we fight every day, it is, but right here it is not.

As anyone in southeastern Arizona knows well, the border crisis and crises are not a new phenomenon for us.