John Cornyn: “The Senate Majority Leader has refused to place immigration reform on the Senate agenda since 2007.”

We want to express our gratitude to Mr Blanche and his staff for working with us on this, and we look forward to voting to advance his nomination out of the Senate Judiciary Committee soon.

I think we were very close to resolving our differences in a way that was acceptable to the Department of Justice, but it’s clear that the president decided that was unacceptable.

Well, there’s nothing we could do to rein in the president when he said he likes the fund and he wishes it still exists.

That's a convenient excuse, and it happens to be untrue.