Al Franken

Does that translate into a shorter wait on most requests?

It is a privilege to be with these three gentlemen who have been champions of open government.

I want to thank the Ranking Member and Senator Cornyn and the Chairman for being here today.

I think we are all in agreement here that we should try to avoid--reduce avoidable delays.

So let us be clear about what you are saying, which is that the testimony of the first two witnesses was not truthful.

So how would you suggest that we do that?

I think, is a tremendous accomplishment.

Unfortunately, experts report that only half of these children are actually getting lawyers.

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It is inexcusable that young kids--and you are right, 6-, 7-year-olds, 14-year-olds--have immigration decisions made on their behalf, against them, whatever, and they are not represented by counsel.

Senator Wicker and I wrote an amendment to Dodd-Frank which basically said we have to--gave the SEC the ability to address that, to eliminate the conflict of interest.

I think it was a brave decision on your part and a powerful statement of the Department's commitment to seek equality under the law for all people.

I do not have to imagine a deranged man using a 100-round clip to kill 12 people at a movie theater.

Let us really do something to improve the treatment and the access to treatment for children and for adults.

I have been doing a lot of thinking and a lot of soul searching the last several months.

People want us to take action to reduce gun violence and to make our communities safer.

Our system is broken when, if you do things right, you cannot see your wife and your four kids or cannot even get the application started going in about two and a half years.

Dairy farmers cannot access the Federal agricultural Guest Worker Program because cows are not seasonal.

I just want to make sure that those kids have rights and those parents have rights during those kind of actions.

We have seen firsthand in Minnesota how devastating these enforcement actions can be on families.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing.

I was proud of the work that we did as a committee to pass a bipartisan bill out of this committee last Congress.

I think it's really important that--and I know that almost all of the States that have flexibility, have waivers, are using a growth model in some way.

We need to get people into annuities. We need to do that so that they don't outlive their savings.

We need to have financial literacy taught in our schools.