"Do you have any indication as to how this administration believes that it should move forward?"
"Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"Even if that means possibly bifurcating the proceedings or making some aspects of the determination public and others immune from any kind of transparency?"
"We are a Nation of immigrants. We always have been. I hope and pray that we always will be."
"So part of the problem with this is not necessarily that you should not be able to count that figure, because those are resulting from the efforts of DHS."
"I am very concerned with the near-complete discretion that would be granted to the Secretary of Homeland Security through this bill."
"Many conservatives are genuinely willing to discuss fundamental immigration reforms, so long as that reform is founded on a truly secure border."
"Now, if this same approach is used by an illegal alien who has entered after the enactment of this law, assuming it is enacted into law, will not this 3- or 3½-year period, whichever it is, amount to ..."
"If the alien was authorized to work in the U.S. during the time in which he or she was legally authorized, would not those taxes have already been collected?"
"I could see that there would be consideration based on the age of a conviction, the type of a conviction..."
"The BRAC 2015 will not look like BRAC 2005."
"economically we are in a different position now."