"We included nearly $4 billion for State and local law enforcement in the economic recovery and investment package enacted earlier this year."
"It is a crucial bipartisan law, trying to improve the quality of justice for all Americans using DNA evidence."
"I hope so, too. We passed her out of committee. She is on the floor. I saw that the senior-most Republican in the Senate, Senator Lugar, said he will vote for her, and I just wish we would go forward ..."
"But all the more reason why I think we should try again on some kind of an immigration bill."
"I commend your early attention to our interests in working closely with Mexico in its struggle against drug trafficking."
"I commend your competent leadership during the current threat of a flu pandemic."
"I want to say that no one who is victimized by violence and repression or who stood with the United States in opposition to an oppressive foreign government will just be blithely labeled a 'terrorist'..."
"I would like you to look at the H-2A rules and see how they might be changed."
"Congress is going to have to act, this is what would fix the problem."
"But would you agree that if everybody looks at it and says, well, you know, this thing could be turned off at the end of 6 months and all, we ought to have something that makes it a little bit more co..."
"I just do not want people whom we have sought to help continue to be barred from seeking asylum here, having helped us, and who face prospects of execution in their home states or their home countries..."