Political Quotes

“Mr. President, again, I have the motion before us. I believe the Senator from Kentucky did object to the motion. Just one brief comment. And I thank the Senator from Louisiana for presiding. I know I was supposed to be in the chair 30 minutes ago, and I will be there in a couple of minutes. I also wanted to take a moment to talk about the great opportunity we have next week to pass immigration reform, the great opportunity that we have to fulfill the promise to the DACA population of some 1.8 million that the President has proposed to provide a path to citizenship. It is a proposal that has $25 billion allocated over 10 years, with maybe $2.5 billion to $5 billion appropriated in the bill that we will take up or in various amendments that we will take up next week. The first pillar is DACA, and we have satisfied that, and I believe we have broad consensus. There may be a few things around the edges, but we are pretty close to done. On border security, we are done because the President himself has said it is not a monolithic wall over 2,300 miles. It is not even a wall over half that territory. It is about maybe 1,000 miles. And 1,000 miles of wall includes some walls that are secondary. So when you see a mile-long wall, it is actually two walls because there is a secondary barrier. We are also talking about technology and infrastructure so that we can start working on the opioid epidemic.…”