Certainly, it had good support here in the United States, but it was a Colombian plan developed with support from the United States.

You need to have an answer to the question, how much are you putting forward.

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

I think a comprehensive immigration reform undertaken now... might be able to get us to a situation where we would not see increasing levels of illegal immigration.

more interior enforcement, particularly at workplaces, is vital to the success of a guest worker program.

For me, it is the most helpful part of any hearing we have had, especially on issues where there is not unanimity of opinion, is that on a diverse panel, like, where is the consensus, because we are all about building consensus here.

Let us work on comprehensive immigration reform.

I also think we must look beyond our border and try to support efforts to address the root causes that are pushing some people to our country.

If we are looking for a needle in a haystack, sometimes it is helpful if we actually reduce the size of the haystack.

Good. Well, I think we agree it is important to continue our efforts, and we want to be helpful.

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.

I am the Golden Rule guy—I think we all are.

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

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

we came up with the idea and said, well, why do we not maybe do something like not text4baby, but text4visaoverstay.

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

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.

I want to dwell for a moment on what works and just throw out an idea that might be helpful for us.

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.

We have been sending out drones for a couple years without the VADER systems and without sophisticated observation systems.

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

Quit making this a political issue. Make this the human issue that it is that impacts families.

If they do not meet those indicators, they do not qualify for a compact.

I ask unanimous consent to engage in a colloquy with Senator Wyden. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I rise for the purpose of entering into a colloquy with the senior senator from Oregon and ranking member of the Finance Committee in regards to the Land and Water Conservation Fund. As the senior senator from Oregon knows, the Land and…