today marks exactly 3 months since Russia began its war on Ukraine. I have come to the Senate floor for what is now the 13th straight week since that time while the Senate has been in session to talk about this unprovoked, illegal, and…

I come to the floor today for the 12th consecutive week while the Senate has been in session to talk about the illegal, unprovoked, and brutal assault on Ukraine being carried out by Russia. We started these discussions before this latest…

I think it is really important that we have these reforms to protect these cloud-based systems.

We have to do what we can do to protect American jobs, and that starts by ensuring that tax dollars spent on American government procurement is not used to create jobs overseas when it can be used to create jobs here.

My hope is that this legislation can pass to help protect the cloud-based services but also we can expand the number of companies that are innovative technology companies that will provide that service.

I come to the floor today to talk again about the illegal, totally unjustified, unprovoked, and brutal attack on Ukraine by Russian forces. This is the 11th week in a row I have come to the Chamber to talk about this because I think it is…

I think that makes a lot of sense. It is going to be expensive but it absolutely crucial to me that the last people coming in are the first people who are told, we understand that your country has issues and that the economics are a real…

We provided the funding for you back in 2019 to get to that number of 40 percent, at least, of cars, 70 percent of trucks, and we should provide more.

I will tell you what it is. It is very simple. It is the number of sponsors out there, the number of sponsors who have been denied.

I think we need to be straight with the American people as to what is happening here.

I appreciate your holding this hearing on the Southwest Border, which clearly is in a crisis situation now.

There is a deep concern expressed by just about every member of this panel, Democrat and Republican, about the lack of a plan.

the reality is we have an asylum system that is broken, and until we fix that it is not going to be solvable post-Title 42.

The alternative to Title 42 is that they are going to do what they cannot do now, because of Title 42, which is apply for asylum.

It is totally unacceptable for the U.S. Government to release unaccompanied kids, who are, by definition, much more vulnerable to trafficking, to unrelated sponsors and not to do more follow-up.

This year so far, 2022, it is unprecedented. It is not a 15-year high. It is an historic high.

Title 42 is not sustainable. I get that. It is a public health authority. It is not meant to be an immigration law.

I think we have an oversight responsibility.

About a million people came to the border unlawfully and were admitted into the United States.

The asylum process is totally broken and it acts as a magnet to draw people to the border.

We do not enforce the laws in the sense that what the laws say is that we are supposed to detain people pending the process of asylum, and we do not do that.

We are prepared to allow whoever comes to the country, they can afford access to our asylum system if they have a right to do so.

There is just so much to go over.

I worked with you then. You were Deputy Secretary. Your deportation numbers are 80 percent lower than they were under the Obama-Biden administration.

You are saying you cannot tell us today whether any of them were released into the United States.