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On the recordApril 18, 2018
Which is why it causes me great pain and disappointment to see that, when Congress has an opportunity to live up to its responsibilities to provide the funds and the means by which to provide greater security along our Southwestern border, even when it is coupled together with a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million young people, people vote 'no,' we abdicate our responsibility when we fail to live up to--I am talking about Congress now--our responsibility to deal with this whole epidemic.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

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Cornyn expresses disappointment over Congress's failure to address border security and the opioid epidemic.

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