Tom Carper

Poland is one of our strongest and most closest allies.

Did you hear anything you agreed with? Yes or no.

We spend so much time, money, and energy focusing on symptoms of problems. We do not do a very good job drilling down on the underlying causes, the root causes of problems.

Let us work on comprehensive immigration reform.

We spent a quarter-of-a-trillion dollars in the last 10 years beefing up our border security.

The reason why is because they are living in hell holes in many cases in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

I do not believe that we should be threatening to shut down the Department of Homeland Security, an agency vital to our Nation's security, over disagreements with the President's policies.

The President has decided to try and make several temporary improvements, hoping it would spur those of us in Congress to finish the job that we began almost 2 years ago.

It would have also reduced our budget deficits by--listen to this--nearly $200 billion over the next 10 years.

The problem that has been raised here, 24,000 checks sent to a single address, IRS has changed the rules to allow only three checks to a single address or account, so message heard.

Rather than continue to spend another quarter-of-a-trillion dollars over the next 10 years, we have only spent 1 percent, not even 1 percent of that to try to say, how do we help make the lives of the people in Guatemala, El Salvador, or…

It is hard to remember that our job was to drain the swamp when we are up to our eyeballs in alligators.

A yes or no answer. Were you all present for the testimony of the first panel?

Folks on our Committee here and my staff hears me say ad nauseam, find out what works, do more of that; find out what does not work, do less of that.

The Visa Waiver tourists support more than a half million American jobs.

The reason why so many people are coming from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to this country is because they lack hope, they lack opportunity.

I hope that most of us can come together to do what I believe is the right thing, and that is support the passage of a clean 4-year appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security by February 27.

Blocking or repealing the Administration's initiatives would take us backward.

I think it is fair and reasonable oversight for this Committee to take.

It is important that they have been raised. Some of them have been addressed

The program will boost GDP by, I think you said, $43 billion for 2024 and more after that.

If we spend the next 10 years saying, yes, well, you have to strengthen the borders more, we have to do more to strengthen the borders, and we do not address the underlying and root causes, we have wasted a lot of money

Most of the people coming into the border these days are not coming from Mexico.

DACA and DAPA will increase Gross Domestic Product by $90 billion over the next decade.

The deferred deportation programs would have a modest, but a net positive impact on the system.