I ask unanimous consent that my intern, Karina Ramirez Velazquez, be granted privileges of the floor for the remainder of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

We have a situation out in the West where Oregon put together a whole team of State experts of all kinds to try to develop a plan because we wanted to avoid a Federal listing.

To that end, I want to understand a few of the practical events of the bill.

I think this particular provision would throw things out of balance.

the most important words of our Constitution are its first three, ``We the People.'' It is the mission statement of our Constitution, the mission statement of our country, a nation ``of the people, by the people, for the people,'' as…

I ask unanimous consent that my intern, Whitney Wagner, have privileges of the floor for the remainder of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I really appreciate the comments of my colleague from California. She brings her background as a prosecutor, as attorney general to bear, as well as the heart of an American who understands that it is not within the scope of America's…

many members of the Democratic caucus are coming down to the floor to speak to the abomination of a policy of separating children from their parents when people are seeking asylum in the United States of America. The Senator from Minnesota…

it's the argument that he made and he made it publicly.

What the President is proposing is equivalent of internment camps during World War II we locked up Japanese, American families together.

the President has not laid out a strategy for reuniting the more than 2300 kids who have been separated from their parents and he is replacing one policy for future families.

It's pathetic, that the president is incapable of -- as an adult taking responsibility.

I'm very concerned that Mitch McConnell's strategy of a narrow bill is a strategy that actually does further harm.

That is a presidential pen.

He caused this with a stroke of his pen. He can end it with a stroke of his pen.

In this case, we have a president who is just psychologically incapable of taking responsibility for what he's done.

for generations, the Statue of Liberty-- Lady Liberty we like to call her--has stood as a symbol of how open America has been to treating those fleeing oppression when they arrive on the shores of America. We hear those famous words…

I thank my colleague for letting us come down to talk about the trumped-up healthcare prices in America. It is trumped up because the prices are going up specifically because of the policies of President Trump and his team. The sabotage is…

I ask unanimous consent that my intern, Jaime Hamre, have privileges of the floor for the remainder of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

today we remember Robert F. Kennedy, whose life was brutally, savagely cut short 50 years ago. Robert Kennedy was a Presidential candidate, a U.S. Senator, a Member of this Chamber, an Attorney General, a naval officer, a father, a son, a…

I ask unanimous consent that I be allowed to use a prop in my presentation. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Remembering Robert F. Kennedy

I find that unacceptable. I find this inversion of the Constitution, this proposed inversion in which the President can go at forces in new countries, new organizations, deciding on his or her own whether or not it meets the test that is…

It is tough for us to make these decisions, but it is our responsibility, and it is why we need to craft a replacement AUMF that honors that vision of the Constitution and makes us have the tough debates and the tough votes.

I am coming to the floor tonight to talk about the issue of immigration here in the United States of America. I think all of us are very familiar with the Statue of Liberty--a symbol we know about from the time we begin to talk, a symbol…

to fail to do so is to fail in our moral leadership in the world.