On the recordFebruary 6, 2017
I too wish to congratulate my colleague from South Carolina on his remarks. We don't share the same view on this, but he is an important voice in the Senate, and I am glad that he is a colleague on the Education Committee in the Senate. As a matter of fact, the other day I said that I wish the President had the sense to appoint him Education Secretary. The kids whom I used to work for in the Denver Public Schools would have been very, very well served by him. The President, of course, is entitled to choose his team, and that is partly what elections are about. The Attorney General, more than any other Cabinet official, must be the people's lawyer, an advocate for the rule of law above all else. My office has received nearly 23,000 calls and emails opposing this nomination. Many of them I cannot read today on the floor for fear of violating the Senate rules. But it is clear from these comments that young Coloradans who came to the United States and know no other country but this country, who arrived here illegally, but, through no fault of their own, fear they will be deported back to a country they don't know--it is clear to me from the comments that I have received in these letters that Coloradans in the LGBTQ community fear that an Attorney General Sessions would turn a blind eye toward discrimination.…
