Richard Blumenthal: “The fact that it does is why we are here today, right?”

Sen. Blackburn and I will fight as long and hard as necessary to pass this bill.

“After all those horrific deaths and public outcry, we were told DHS was going to change,” he said. “Again and again, those promises were proven false.”

There’s no excuse for this administration disobeying the law and withholding this funding.

It fails to provide for adequate enforcement.