Political Quotes

“No, please. We are going to lose votes over here. You don't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting it through the House, because we took the border issue, and we didn't address it the way it should have been. We closed it out. I could see the game being fixed. I am here as a proud supporter of Ukraine, telling you that you have hurt the cause of Ukraine by trying to shortchange a debate on the border. Your product was good, but I want to make it better. I have got a National Border Patrol Council letter about three things that would make it better. I ask unanimous consent that it be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: National Border Patrol Council, Tucson, AZ, February 7, 2023. Hon. Lindsey O. Graham, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. Hon. John Cornyn, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. Dear Senators Graham and Cornyn: I am responding to your questions regarding how to improve the border security provisions in the emergency national security supplemental. Simply put, defining an emergency at the border as 1,000 encounters a day would be a substantial improvement. It is apparent that 5,000 encounters in a day is a catastrophe, and 1,000 encounters a day is a true emergency.…”