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Jeff Flake is a former U.S. Senator from Arizona, serving from 2013 to 2019 as a member of the Republican Party. He is known for his advocacy of free trade, fiscal conservatism, and a more restrained foreign policy. Flake has been a vocal critic of partisan politics and has often emphasized the importance of civility in political discourse. During his tenure, he focused on issues such as immigration reform and government accountability.
Mr. President, as we continue the debate on the issue of immigration as it relates to providing a permanent solution to those young immigrants who benefited from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the scope of this debate…
Mr. President, I rise to honor the life of my friend Elder Von G. Keetch, legal counsel and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His passing on Friday evening was sudden and unexpected, and I wish to extend my…
Mr. President, I rise with great sadness to remember Edward Lorenzen, who, along with his 4-year-old son Michael, perished this weekend in a house fire. Ed was invaluable to my staff during last year's tax reform debate. The Washington…
What is not to like? I think we can all agree that this has been a tremendous success to all of us.
I would not like to see the scenario in which, in order to deal with this time limit, we end up having a text that is not what we, the three countries, need and want.
Every day, Mexican shoppers come across the border and spend about $8 million in Arizona.
Well, I thank the Senator from Utah. One of the things I fear most is that we are having a tough enough time controlling spending. Dr. Coburn, who served in the House--I admired his time there. He went after earmarks and after a lot of…
Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Utah. Let me just say that during a televised, bipartisan meeting recently at the White House, the President suggested that we might be more collegial around here, more efficient in Congress, if we…
Mr. President, on Friday, I voted with many of my colleagues not to accept the deal that was offered at that time, the CR to go for 4 weeks. I felt that was unnecessarily long. Also, I voted against it because I felt, like a lot of my…
Mr. President, 1 day into a government shutdown, we are in a hole as a body. I was just talking to one of my colleagues who said we ought to spend less time worrying about who threw us in this hole or how we ended up in this hole and more…
Mr. President, I thank the Senator for yielding. On the 5th, as I understand it, the DACA Program will no longer apply. Those who have already registered, that registration will continue until it runs out. There are some now--I think the…
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