Political Quotes

“I rise today with the bittersweet task of saying goodbye to our office's departing chief counsel, Alyson Sincavage. Whether it was her time as a public defender or fighting on behalf of immigrants at the American Immigration Lawyers Association to cutting her teeth in the Senate with former Senator Tom Udall and my colleague Senator Tim Kaine, Alyson has been exactly the type of public servant we were looking for when I joined the Senate in 2021 and was handed the gavel to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety. From the earliest days of setting up shop in the subcommittee, through tireless fights during reconciliation and nonstop negotiations and vote-a-ramas, from helping me prepare for the historic confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to navigating contentious markups--yes, we have contentious markups in the Senate Judiciary Committee from time to time--and also overseeing the confirmation of 30 judges to the Federal bench in California, she has done a lot. She has helped guide my team of counsels on the Judiciary Committee while we have taken on the dark money influence on the Supreme Court of the United States. We worked together to protect reproductive rights and, particularly the last few months, defending against some of the most extreme and cruel Republican immigration proposals.…”