Political Quotes

“Madam President, the majority leader has said he plans to schedule a vote on President Biden's $106 billion supplemental funding request as soon as this week. He knows, as well as I do, that, as written, this proposal stands zero chance of becoming law. If Senator Schumer puts this funding request on the floor of the Senate, I believe the cloture vote--the requirement here that 60 Senators agree to cut off debate--will fail. In the House, the legislation is so unpopular that it will never even make it to the floor for a vote. The strong opposition to the President's proposal is completely warranted, not for what it includes so much as for what it does not include. The supplemental is supposed to be all about national security, but it fails to deliver anything on one of the most urgent national security priorities, and that is the crisis at the southern border. National security begins with homeland security, right here at home, and we have a major security vulnerability right here on our Nation's doorstep. Since President Biden took office, we have logged more than 6.5 million illegal crossings at the southern border. On top of that, there have been roughly 1.7 million people who have gotten away. They call them ``got-aways,'' the Border Patrol does. They are people who have been identified--at least by their physical presence--on a camera or a sensor, but when the Border Patrol shows up to try to find them, they are nowhere to be found.…”