With regard to the comprehensive phrase, that means amnesty, legalization, regularization or some form of fashion of it, basically. That cannot be done until the American people feel and those of us in Congress really feel that we have…

When we are sitting on the northern border, we think the southern border is getting most of the resources and attention.

Thank you. I consider that good enough to say you will help us, so thank you.

This idea, well, we will let everyone apply and see who should get some money, it does not work because we have to plan.

I think he should have been commended for making recommendations for progress.

Every time New Yorkers hear about the threat of a potential terrorist attack from al Qaeda or other extreme groups, of course, it sends chills down our spines.

I was truly upset when, for the second year in a row, the President eliminated funding for Securing the Cities in the fiscal year 2011 budget.

We have got approximately 8 million people who are illegally in the country working today, and we have a substantial amount of unemployment in our country.

I believe when, well done, it can be an effective way of leveraging resources.

I see Senator McCain saying the American people have spoken. They want border security first. And I think that is true, and I think that is good policy.

I rise today to speak in support of the nomination of Judge Denny Chin to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Judge Chin is, first and foremost, a highly qualified and experienced nominee to one of the busiest courts…

My proposal was not curtailing the right to require tough votes.

Holds... have become epidemic in the Senate.

the dynamics of the Senate obviously are different, so but let me ask a not entirely rhetorical question, and that is, why do Senators filibuster?

By filibustering the ability of the Senate to begin debate on the DISCLOSE Act, yesterday's minority denied the American people a full airing of the recent Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC and how that decision might affect…

We want full, fair, and robust debate.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We will be forced to defend our own interests as best we can unilaterally.

Passage of legislation, such as S. 1027, the Stabenow-Bunning bill, would distinguish actionable from nonactionable forms of currency undervaluation.

Stop cheating is all we are asking. Allow the currency to float in a reasonable way.

A remedy delayed is a remedy denied. The longer it is denied, the greater the injustice.

A new bill, the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Act of 2010, S. 3134, has 18 cosponsors today, including the Chairman and Senator Graham.

I cannot sit by and watch people in my State, Ohio, or anywhere else lose their job because the Congress is allowing someone as big as China to cheat.

This hearing is about more than the filibuster. It seems to me it is about the institutional role of the Senate and its function in the legislative process.

It threatens the very nature of the Senate and I am referring to the resolution introduced by my friend, my colleague, my neighbor and the distinguished senator from New Mexico.