"In the 20 years since, Congress has provided substantial research and development funding to DOD in an effort to reduce fratricide casualties in present and future conflicts."
"I am pleased to join Senator Hutchison in recommending Rodney Gilstrap to serve as United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas in Marshall."
"Senator Hutchison and I have been honored to appoint a bipartisan judicial evaluation Committee that we believe works very well to help us recommend the best and the brightest people to serve in these..."
"Based on his broad experience and his commitment to public service, he has earned the support of people of all political stripes in east Texas and around our great state."
"It is my pleasure to speak on behalf of the nomination of Marina Marmolejo."
"To put a point on it, actually, the alien can benefit from his or her own country refusing to accept them back because the Supreme Court has said in Zadvydas, you cannot detain these people more than ..."
"It is incredibly unfair that if you happen to be an immigrant from a country who is cooperative on removal, then you are likely to be detained, you are likely to be removed."
"The average time it takes to dispose of an immigration case, the national average, I believe, is 467 days."
"there is no place, in my view, for making it up as you go along."
"I really think that the problem Congress and the Federal Government have is a credibility problem when it comes to our immigration system."
"It serves no one's interest to have cases languishing for years before a decision is made."