I am concerned about the large and expanding docket of our Nation's immigration court system.
I was encouraged the Department of Justice requested a $17 million to support an additional 35 Immigration Judge teams.
Is this a priority? Because I really worry that we're going to reach such a tipping point that justice will just be totally denied.
Your excellent U.S. Attorney in Vermont, Tris Coffin, has worked with the local and State.
We actually did this in a thing called The Place, in Burlington, Vermont, for 7 or 8 years, back in the late '60s and early '70s.
the Nation's immigration courts are understaffed--you've got 32 vacancies, nearly half of the 200 immigration judges eligible for retirement...
Madam Chair, I appreciate what you've said and what Senator Shaheen said earlier about what I've been doing up in Vermont.
It's important to our system in the United States that the powerful don't pay a fine while the ordinary person goes to prison.
The heroin crisis is sweeping America.
What steps will the Department take to ensure that rural communities are not put at a disadvantage when applying for grants?
By not replacing the sequester this year, we are foregoing $56 billion that could be invested in programs to grow our economy.