I just want to express my frustration and concern.

I appreciate the law enforcement aspects you said. As a guy, again, who was frustrated as mayor that I could not get undocumented immigrants to come--there is fear coming forward and reporting crimes, cooperating with the police.

I really appreciate that, and I imagine what you are saying, there is a lot of voracity to that.

I hope it is something that this Committee can focus on to deal with that problem.

The idea is that if you have a child, right, that is a U.S. citizen, you may not be a documented immigrant, you may not have citizenship, but the idea is that for an American child to claim that credit, right, we do not want to punish a…

Our inability to pass a bill has now put at risk many of the issues and concerns.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so…

I will not yield at this time, Mr. President. I will be glad to yield at the conclusion of my remarks if the Senator still has a question. Then there is the Senator from Montana who said: I would prefer that the Congress act, yes. Then…

Mr. President, yesterday President Obama, as part of the rollout of his blueprint budget that calls for more than $2 trillion in new taxes and adds more than $8 trillion to our national debt over the next 10 years, visited the Department…

The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall…

You are a highly intelligent, charming person, but you refuse to answer our questions and that, to me, does not strike me as trying to work with Congress but rather contempt of Congress's oversight responsibilities.

The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cruz). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 99, nays 0, as follows…

Again, Mr. President, the distinguished Senator from New York knows well the answer to that is yes.

Mr. President, responding to my friend from New York, I would say theoretically the answer to his question is yes. As a practical matter, we know the House has passed a particular piece of legislation that we would like to take up. It is…

I am asking, if you are wrong, if the Supreme Court disagrees with you--if five members of the Supreme Court disagree with you--do you believe you have authority to issue an administrative fix, or do you think you need additional…

To come here and repeatedly refuse to answer the questions strikes me as nothing less than contempt of our oversight responsibility, and it is a very, very serious matter.

What we know right now is, it would be devastating, the effect, in terms of loss of premium, loss of individuals.

If you lose, are you going to come to Congress and ask for additional legislation?