I intend to make it one of my responsibilities to make sure it is adequate to the task and the challenges we face.

I am confident that our distinguished panelists today will help us better understand the urgent need we face to reform our immigration system in a manner that will grow our economy by attracting those who want to come here to start a…

But we should assure every American and all Americans that we will never hire, never allow to be hired a foreign national under an H-1B program where there is a qualified American ready, willing, and able to do that job.

It is a fact that America's lack of a sensible and coherent high-skilled immigration policy is causing our Nation to lose too many entrepreneurs and job creators to our competitors abroad.

I think it is clear, at least to me, that he has not done so, and we need to find a way to try to work together to solve this particular aspect of our broken immigration system.

I think one of the things that we might want to consider in working together on legislation here...

No other major developed economy gives such a low priority to employment--based immigration.

It is hard to ignore the benefits to our Nation of attracting high-skilled talent.

I cannot think of anything that would sabotage our desire to try to fix this broken system...

I would like to speak on the cut, cap, and balance legislation. I plan to vote yes on Saturday morning to proceed to this bill, and I urge my colleagues to do likewise. I would also like to explain why I think that is important. Most of us…

I have come to the floor to express my appreciation for the ranking member of the Budget Committee, Senator Sessions, and to express many of the same concerns I know he has articulated. One of the most basic responsibilities of any…

I have a correction. My staff told me I undercounted $14 trillion. I asked ahead of time, but we actually got the number wrong. The number I have on the chart is actually three zeros too few. So just to make sure the record is correct…