Our shared border with Canada is--listen to this--the largest in the world.

Is there more that we can do to better secure our Northern Border? Sure there is.

Since 9/11, we have increased our border staffing and technology footprint along the Northern Border.

It is also an economic powerhouse for both of our countries.

I was talking earlier in my opening statement, I mentioned that we have a 4,000-mile border with Canada.

I have said many times we are contributing to their misery by our addiction to methamphetamine and heroin and crack cocaine and so forth.

How do we get a better result for less money?

What are some things that do not work? What are some things that we just ought not to do?

Find out what works, do more of that. Find out what does not work, and do less of that.

We need tax reform that lowers the rates, broadens the base, and helps raise a little bit of money for deficit reduction.

Thank you, and I want to thank the folks on our Committee and, frankly, a lot of my colleagues and people around the country who have expressed just personal feelings about what those of us who were riding that train last night from…

Technology is the key to securing the border.

I think we need comprehensive immigration reform.

We need entitlement reform that serves old people, poor people, does not savage old people or poor people, but, frankly, saves these programs for our kids.

Maybe this is one that we could work on together to do a better job on.

if folks who are citizens of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador who want to come to this country to work for a limited period of time and be able to go home, maybe we ought to change our immigration laws so that can happen.

I am just very proud of what we have done in our State of Delaware.

I think somebody here said it, broken immigration system. It is. That is a very valid acknowledgment.

I am Tom Carper, and I approve that message.

I am pleased to see that it has been funded by the appropriators--not to the full extent, but I think generously.

I asked them to tell us what is not working so that we can do less of that.

I served a little time over there.

Ensuring an efficient and effective border security and immigration system is incredibly important.

I hope the appropriators will heed the President's call for a new focus and investment there.

It actually sounds like common sense, and I think it sounds like a pretty good idea.