Jon Kyl

I was told a colleague was watching this debate from his office and is under the impression a point was made, under our legislation, a supervisor could apply for citizenship or be granted citizenship or legal permanent residency under the…

They could ask unanimous consent to intervene, and obviously it will be granted.

I am happy to have my unanimous consent request amended along the lines of what the Senator from Massachusetts said.

I ask the Senator from Oregon, we have the Senator from Massachusetts here, and the Senator from Alabama has been here, as has the Senator from Georgia been on the floor when there was no one else present. I wonder if we can get some…

If I can conclude by saying to the Senator from California, I think the proposal she and the Senator from Texas have set forth to put this very important but very complicated discussion off and not have this debate on the bill that helps…

I do not have the page. It is a section that permits former immigrants, who worked here illegally in agriculture but have since returned to their home, to return to our southern border and apply for the special status that is set up in the…

Before the Senator yields, may I ask two quick questions? Will the Senator from California respond? First, the Senator from California is the ranking member on the Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee…

Let me ask the Senator another question. She talked about the probability of thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants being attracted to come into the country who are not here now. The Senator from Idaho said we will have a cutoff…

I did not want the opportunity to pass to talk a little bit about the current Attorney General, a person for whom I have absolute respect and express appreciation for his service, not only for the State of Missouri when he represented that…

I wish to say a word about another of our colleagues, Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Senator Campbell and I served together in the House of Representatives. He is unique in the history of the Senate. He is a Native American who came first to the…

My colleague Peter Fitzgerald from Illinois is an extraordinarily smart and focused individual who came to the Senate to represent his State of Illinois and did so with great passion, enthusiasm, and courage, in some cases, when he had to…

I had told both Senators from Hawaii I would express publicly my personal commitment to assist in that effort to ensure that no procedural roadblocks would be thrown in the way of the consideration of that legislation, nor a final vote on…

And the creation of an ombudsman. This is overkill. It is going to exacerbate the problem of risk aversion with having too many people looking over the shoulder of too many people we tasked with the difficult job of collecting and…

I recall in the Senate a vote of I think it was 97 to 1 or 90-something to 1, in any event, earlier this year that passed a proposed statute to guarantee crime victims certain rights. That bill is pending in the House. What this does is…

This amendment would codify and tighten the procedures for personal interviews of people seeking temporary visas. Mr. President, 15 of the 19 hijackers who came here received these kinds of visas. I think in every case but one they were…

Once the Supreme Court has spoken, and there is language in this Lawrence case that suggests to many that the Court would be inclined to rule in that fashion, then the Court has just enunciated the supreme law of the land and no State…

I knew if we stood here long enough, the Senator from Michigan and I would find something on which to agree.

The CEOs and the sports figures are not fiduciaries. They are not in a trust relationship with the people who pay their salary. A sports figure, for example, uses a representative of the union and negotiates a fee with the baseball team…

I trust that as the final bill language is crafted, he and his colleagues will be striving to ensure that the need to provide parents with appropriate mechanisms for vindicating their due process rights will be balanced appropriately…

It seems to me we ought to take one lesson from what has occurred here tonight, which is that those of us who wish to bring amendments to the floor, to have them debated and voted on, who I think have every right to have those amendments…

If there was an effort to mislead, there would have been a lot of countries complicit and a lot of Senators complicit. I don't believe for a minute that, in fact, any of us attempted to mislead; that Jacques Chirac attempted to mislead…

Does the State of Oklahoma, under this policy, receive 95 cents in each of the next 5 years, and does the State of Arizona receive 90.5 cents for every dollar we send in?

I really do appreciate that. I think what the Senator referred to and what he read was that Mr. Kay said: We all got it wrong. But he did not say: We got it all wrong.

Go right ahead and read that again. That is the distinction I would make. We did get one thing wrong. We cannot find the weapons.

Theoretically, a new employee would be a new benefit, but the reality is that since the accrual or the benefit is usually a 3- to 5-year time period, new employees would not in fact be covered.