Rob Portman

I come from Ohio. We have a lot of big urban hospitals, and we have a lot of small rural hospitals.

We are making history as we sit here this morning because, I believe, she is going to be confirmed.

We have to be sure that your voice is heard there.

I hope you will take that role seriously and attend those meetings.

I think that is really important.

Well, I would agree with your approach. My time is coming to an end. Just to say that meanwhile, right now, we need relief.

Are you willing to work with us and stick with us to ensure that we can require the post office to provide this information to your law enforcement folks so that we can stop more of this deadly poison from coming in?

It is overdue, in my view, and I think there are a lot of positive things in that bill.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 4:51 p.m., adjourned until Monday, May 14, 2018, at 3 p.m…

We learned today, which I thought was kind of shocking information, that so many of these young people are not being tracked at all.

We also, though, need to be sure that they are showing up for their immigration proceedings.

We learned we have a broken immigration system.

Privacy is your concern?

I do not want to leave you out.

Let me end my questioning by asking again very simply, when are we going to have this agreement completed?

Yes, we need to do more in terms of discouraging people through the push factors and the pull factors from coming to our country.

Obviously, a red flag when a child fails to show up at the hearing.

So you have an agreement with the sponsor, they have to provide this--an agreement with you, HHS. The child does not show up, and you are not even notified.

We learned this morning that about half, maybe up to 58 percent of these kids who are being placed with sponsors do not show up at immigration hearings.

At a minimum let us stick to the facts. It is a problem. We have to deal with it.

Let us consult, but let us choose a date, and let us work toward that date.

Let us make a commitment today to do this within a timeframe.

What is your commitment you are going to make to us today as to when this Joint Concept of Operations agreement will be completed?

But to the extent they are actual family members, those separations have to be something you have to seriously consider because of the impact on those kids and also, the responsibility then taken on by the government.

The President always tries to say that every child coming into this country is a gang member, which we know is total balderol, it is stupid, it is not true.