I think granting yet another amnesty would result in those numbers going even higher, would result in even more little girls and little boys being subjected to violence and horrific, dangerous conditions.

We have to avoid practices and policies that operate as magnets for further illegal migration.

Is it really your testimony that granting amnesty to some 800,000 people who came illegally as children had no effect in causing a dramatic increase in children being handed over to international cartels to be smuggled in here illegally?

I myself am the son of an immigrant from Cuba, and I am a passionate advocate for legal immigration.

We have a particular humanitarian crisis with respect to unaccompanied minors. That is a crisis that is the direct consequence of policies of the Obama administration.

I rise today to raise an issue that has been of growing concern to the American people: the exchange of the so- called Taliban five--five terrorist detainees from Guantanamo--in exchange for Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. Let me say from the…

I do wish there were Democratic Senators willing to defend the First Amendment.

This amendment here today, if adopted, would repeal the free speech protections of the First Amendment.

When did elected Democrats abandon the Bill of Rights?

The expenditure of money has been integral to speech.

What this bill says is very simple: Any restrictions on the rights, the free speech rights of citizens shall apply with equal force to media corporations like the New York Times, CBS, ABC, and NBC.

America is an exceptional country. When our country was founded, we crafted a Constitution that Thomas Jefferson explained would 'serve as chains to bind the mischief of Government.'