Political Quotes

“Mr. President, in a moment I am going to talk about both the amendment offered by my colleague, Senator McCain, to provide funding for members of the National Guard to be deployed to the border, our southern border with Mexico, for the purpose of better border security, as well as the amendment which I have offered as a second-degree amendment to the Cornyn amendment which provides funding for Operation Streamline, which is the process by which people who are apprehended crossing the border illegally are sent to jail for a couple of weeks as a deterrent so that they then don't want to cross in the future because they know they are going to be in jail rather than working someplace for the money they came to work for. Just to explain one thing: when there is a member of the majority on the Senate floor, I will ask unanimous consent to modify my amendment with a technical modification. But the amendment is the same. What it does is to provide the sum of $200 million for additional funding for multiagency law enforcement initiatives--that is the way they are described--for the Tucson sector of the border, and that is roughly the eastern half of the Arizona border with Mexico. Mr.…”