Political Quotes

“Recapping, we have a bipartisan bill. Republicans in the Senate said: We have a negotiator here. Don't bring anybody new to the table. His name is James Lankford. He is a conservative Senator from the State of Oklahoma. I respect him and I like him, and he headed up there to negotiate. On our side, we had Chris Murphy, Senator from Connecticut, and Kyrsten Sinema, Senator from Arizona, Independent Democratic. The three worked, not for weeks, but months to put together a bipartisan bill. The bill that they put together was endorsed by the National Border Patrol Council. When I heard the stories said by the junior Senator from Texas about the terrible things that would occur if that bill would pass, I wondered: Did he consider stopping to talk to the Border Patrol agents who endorsed the bill and thought from a law enforcement perspective at the border that it made sense? We were ready to go. We were getting a bipartisan bill and it was the beginning of negotiations to do something about the border. We need to do something about the border. Then what happened? And this is a matter of record. Everyone has seen it, all the clips on television. They went to the punitive--I guess that is the word--Republican candidate for President of the United States, Donald Trump, and said: We have a bill, a bipartisan bill to consider in the Senate. He said: Kill it. Stop the bill. Don't vote for it. I would rather have the issue, and I don't want to give Joe Biden any credit for anything.…”