On the recordFebruary 9, 2024
I don't need to tell the people in this body or on the other side of the Capitol that the public view of Washington, DC, is not very good. Our numbers in public opinion numbers oftentimes are in the single digits, and they are there for good reason. They are there because oftentimes people only see politics here all the time. They see bodies and individuals who work for the parties; they don't work for the good of America. What we saw earlier this week just confirms that, where we had a bill that came out to address border security--particularly on the southern border, but it does good things for the northern border too. It addresses border security in this country, where we are seeing people coming across the border--the southern border in particular. We don't know who they are, and it is just flat a national security issue. When I go home to Montana, I hear it from everybody. I hear it from families, from business owners, from policemen to mayors--you name it. In Montana--and I don't think Montana is different from any other State--this is a big issue. People understand the southern border is broken, and they want us, the folks who serve in Washington, DC, their representatives to the government, to do something about it. Over the last many years, multiple administrations, we have seen people go to the border and talk about how things are really bad down there: They are bad because we have undocumented folks coming across the border in record numbers.…
