Mr. President, I rise today to recognize and thank the patent lawyers and Senate staff who have played a critical role in the drafting and enactment of the present bill. Among the Senate staff who have played a role with regard to this…

Other things that would help, for example, would be better enforcement of the hiring of illegal immigrants.

We have talked about this a lot. It is the Operation Streamline, the idea that for people who cross illegally there will be consequences, specifically jail time.

I think it is very important that we spend the relatively small amount of resources necessary to implement in a more aggressive way the elements of Operation Streamline in the Tucson sector.

We need to do more than we are doing. We need to get it better than we have it today.

I think it is appropriate--in fact, it is necessary to know who your enemy is in order to prevail against them.

I do not want that to happen with regard to Agent Terry and his family as well.

I appreciate your answer and would strongly encourage you to ensure that others in the Department do not shy away from, when it is appropriate, referring to terrorists by their real name.

DHS has an outside working group of advisers that has prepared a draft report that, among other things, deals with the terminology for referring to Islamist terrorists.

I have been an advocate of victims' rights for a long time, among which are to understand the facts of the case surrounding the death of a loved one.

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Georgia (Mr…