Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I appreciate how the Presiding Officer always speaks loud enough so that everyone can hear. The Presiding Officer also manages the floor with great assertiveness, which I also appreciate. I am grateful to my friend and colleague, the distinguished Senator from California, and his thoughtful approach to legislation. There are some things that he said that I feel that I need to address. One of them is a reference to a belief that there is no credible evidence of noncitizens voting, at least no credible evidence of noncitizens voting in any significant numbers. Well, there are studies that go in exactly the opposite direction, studies like the one that I cited just moments ago showing that it is a nontrivial sum, such that if even something at the low end of the percentages cited in that study were correct, that could easily be enough to sway the outcome of some elections. But, regardless, what my friend is referring to has to be taken with a grain of salt, considering how things have changed on the ground. The enumerator and the denominator of that fraction have changed over the last few years, where we have now got about 30 million noncitizens living in the United States, with about 10 million who have come in who are illegally in the United States now, who entered this country unlawfully and are now living in the United States. That is not a nontrivial sum when that many people entered the United States that quickly.…”