Political Quotes

“Madam President, I am going to ask unanimous consent for a proposal on the border. First, I will speak for a minute and then ask consent. I know my colleague from Arizona will then speak and offer some amendments to it. Today, I join my cosponsors--Senators Reid, Inouye, Murray, Feinstein, Bingaman, McCaskill, Casey, Udall of Colorado, Begich, and Burris--to try to make our borders as secure as possible. We are asking unanimous consent to pass a smart and tough $600 million emergency border security appropriations package that will provide immediate relief to the border. Here is what our border security package will do: It will provide over $250 million to hire 1,500 new agents to permanently patrol our southern border and ports of entry. It will also create a strike force that will be deployed in different areas of the southwest border, depending on where the need is greatest at any particular moment. It will provide funds to deploy unmanned drones to fly along our southern border and provide our patrol officers on the ground with real time information on unlawful border crossings. I believe there are seven working now. They have been very successful, and they should be expanded quickly and immediately. It will provide funds to improve communications capabilities between Federal border enforcement and State and local officers along the border.…”