We actually lost a bank, they got in there, they saw the corporate charter, and were like what's this, and they just panicked.

I have to take a moment and thank you for your efforts to help this Nation...

I have to take a moment and thank you for your efforts to help this Nation...

In about an hour, this body will gather. There will be 100 Senators here to make a decision about what we are going to do to take a step on border security. It is an issue that has bedeviled, quite frankly, this body for decades. It has…

I have to take a moment and thank you for your efforts to help this Nation...

We actually lost a bank, they got in there, they saw the corporate charter, and were like what's this, and they just panicked.

I ask unanimous consent to be able to use a prop during this speech. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

There is no reason for me to have this pen if we're just going to do press conferences. I can do press conferences from anywhere, but we can only make law from this room.

I had a popular commentator four weeks ago that I talked to that told me flat out before they knew any of the contents of the bill, any of the content, nothing was out at that point, that told me flat out if you try to move a bill that…

We definitely didn't shut him out. He asked him not be included from the earliest day.

The House has already spoken, the Senate needs to be able to speak and then we'll see we can actually align bill.

on vote No. 32, I voted no, but my intention was to vote yes, actually. I would like to ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to change my vote, since it will not affect the outcome. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

This bill focuses on getting us to zero illegal crossings a day. There is no amnesty. It increases the number of Border Patrol agents, it increases asylum officers, it increases detention beds so we can quickly detain and then deport…

Republicans have talked about this for a long time. I'm just telling them to read the bill and make their own decision on it.

It would be absolutely absurd for me to agree to 5,000 people a day. This bill focuses on getting us to zero illegal crossings a day.

Those individuals should not just be waived into the country.

This is a new authority to say, when we can no longer detain and deport, when we can't process the people and actually make a decision right there at the border, then we'll actually turn those folks back around to Mexico.

Republicans four months ago would not give funding for Ukraine, for Israel, and for our southern border, because we demanded changes in policy. So we actually locked arms together and said, we are not going to give you money for this. We…

This bill focuses on getting us to zero illegal crossings a day. There is no amnesty. It increases the number of Border Patrol agents, it increases asylum officers, it increases detention beds so we can quickly detain and then deport…

People just want a secure border, where we have legal immigration, but we're not promoting illegal immigration.

We can't just have a system where we have that. In between the ports of entries, when it gets crowded, they'll just release them under a parole authority there, and they're just released into the country.

it is January. It is cold outside. In fact, it is snowing outside here in Washington, DC, today and tomorrow. It is late January, which means what it has meant for the last five decades: Pro-life Americans will gather by the hundreds of…

no one reads the boring stuff better than Senator Booker from New Jersey, so I want to recognize his capability to be able to go through the details. I have a staff member who has served with me for 11 years. His name is Derek Osborn. He…

Senator Tillis, that is correct that during the past several administrations, we had millions of people who have actually crossed our border, have either never requested asylum--at the border, they declared they were going to ask for…

there has been a big conversation in this body that actually matches the conversation that is happening around the country right now. If you ask any random person on the street what are the key issues that they are thinking about right…