This is not a zero sum game, even though Senator Schumer and I are having some good-natured competition.

criminal offenders are our highest priority and this year I think you will see for the first time in the Agency's history, we will remove more criminal offenders than non-criminal offenders.

When will CBP have all ports of entry equipped with license plate readers?

Is the DHS aware that immigration courts are dismissing cases involving criminals due to backlogs?

I think as we approach this and we recognize this is a beginning of a process that is not really part of what Congress does, we legislate prospectively, not retroactively.

I think we can all agree that broadband access has been a very positive thing in terms of our country and the world and our ability to communicate, our ability to do business.

Mr. President, the distinguished chairman of the Judiciary Committee has pointed out the Deputy Attorney General is a member of the national security team of the President, and the President has already used the authority under the…

I will proceed, then, under the standing order which gives me up to 10 minutes, as I understand. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator is correct.

I regret that the Senator from Louisiana is unwilling to cooperate and provide everybody a chance to be heard, but I will proceed. I wish to speak to the nomination of Jack McConnell to the Federal district bench. I spoke on this…

Madam President, I say to my colleague from Ohio, what a welcome idea of refocusing on the No. 1 issue in America today, which is too many Americans out of work. Of course, we saw the growth numbers for the first quarter of this year: 1.8…

I ask one further unanimous consent, and that would be that an article from Legal Newsline about a discovery dispute still delaying the resolution of the theft case against Motley Rice be printed in the Record. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro…