The drought in the Colorado River Basin is now extending beyond its 20 year.

As you all know, there is nothing more important to my home State of Arizona than our water resources.

Let me remind the DAV that Senator Sinema and I have introduced the Veteran Caregiver Re-education, Re-employment, and Retirement Act to provide caregivers with needed support.

Let me remind the DAV that Senator Sinema and I have introduced the Veteran Caregiver Re-education, Re-employment, and Retirement Act to provide caregivers with needed support.

Let me remind the DAV that Senator Sinema and I have introduced the Veteran Caregiver Re-education, Re-employment, and Retirement Act to provide caregivers with needed support.

Thank you. Senator, are you aware that the only way to offer an amendment on a bill being considered in the U.S. Senate is to first pass the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed--that being the vote we took yesterday at 1:59…

OK. Thank you. Thank you. Senator, I was just listening to your speech, and you mentioned that you thought the bill that we had drafted was a good start but not enough. I am wondering if you would remind us how you voted yesterday on the…

Senator Graham-- The PRESIDING OFFICER. My colleagues will address your comments to me.

Thank you. Now, Senator, I know that you have been here quite a bit longer than me, but it is my understanding that in order to get to the portion of the bill where we offer amendments on the floor, we first have to pass the motion to…

I think it is probably useful to take a couple of moments and do a quick refresher on how Senate process and procedure work. So, in the U.S. Senate, when a bill is introduced and when it comes to the floor, we have to do what is called a…

And it is also my understanding that it was authored by leadership and the three sponsors of the border bill, which your team gratefully helped us create, that we would have an open-amendment process. So would you help me understand why…

I stand here today as the border crisis is devastating my State. Just last week, Nogales officers seized 2.1 million fentanyl pills at a port of entry. Just last week, Border Patrol agents recovered in the Tucson desert enough fentanyl to…

That's right, Margaret.

So we will no longer have people just entering the country and maybe going to court in the next seven or 10 years. Instead, we will make swift justice.

Well, I'm so glad you have asked that question, because, look, we have all seen the images on television of what's happening in Lukeville, Arizona, and in Southern Texas, where large numbers of migrants are approaching the border and being…

We are giving tools to this administration and future administrations to actually gain control of the border.

It's not just a television show for us. It's our daily lives.

We want enough time for the government to be able to process these asylum claims and then turn folks away who do not qualify, while settling people who do qualify.

Our law actually requires the administration to implement these tools.

The crisis on our border is a national security threat.

We are going to end that process by ending catch-and-release and requiring folks who do come to claim asylum to actually have their asylum claims determined quickly and fairly.

Right now, individuals who want to come to America just to get a better life or to seek the American dream, to find work, those are what we call economic migrants. They are not permitted to enter the country whenever they would like.

Our law changes that and ends the practice of catch-and-release.

If our law were in effect, this border would have been closed every single day this year.

We will make swift justice. Folks who do qualify for asylum will be on a rapid path, six months or less, to start a new life in America.