Political Quotes

“reserving the right to object, Senator Durbin knows extremely well that unanimous consent is trying to get all 100 Senators to agree on something. Senator Durbin has done remarkable work for years advocating on the issue of immigration, and he knows exceptionally well what a difficult issue this is. He has been involved in countless debates and negotiations dealing with this issue, and there is certainly not 100 percent agreement on a House bill that passed in 2019 on how to solve immigration. So it is not going to pass. I certainly will object in a moment to this This bill far exceeds just dealing with DACA. As this body knows very well, there were four separate votes dealing with immigration in February of 2018. At that time, three of those dealt with the issue of DACA, and none of those actually were able to get 60 votes to be able to pass. The Trump administration was very engaged in those negotiations, and the White House itself brought a proposal to deal with DACA and multiple other issues with immigration. It failed to get 60 votes to move it in 2018, and the Court at that time swooped it up and said they wanted to be able to look at it. Now 2 years later, the Court finally responded, putting it back into the administration's hands and, quite frankly, back into Congress's hands.…”