Ron Johnson

I think the goal of Congress should be to get the American taxpayer off the hook for what happens at the banks.

I think the work that is going on should end up in that place, and I think it is to the benefit of JPMorgan and the system generally if we do end up in that place.

I have always said that the fact that we have institutions that simply are too big to fail shows how regulation already failed us.

Yes, I came to the floor today to support the Cruz amendment. Does the Senator from Oklahoma still wish to speak?

So the Department spends approximately $50 billion per year. We are not doing that planning now...

I think the framework laid out in the immigration reform bill targets some of the key areas...

I think this bill is going to be spending another $4.5 billion. What do we spend per year on border security right now, approximately?

Where you would be satisfied, where the American people would be satisfied, so we are not looking at another 10 million illegal immigrants 10 years down the road or we are not going to be looking at another wave.

I certainly understand when I ask questions, do you have enough resources and people needed to defend budgets, I mean, I get that.

I could not believe--and we did not have exactly the high ground there, either.

Are we just doing more of the same, Ms. Richards?

We have the infrastructure, we do not have the manpower.

Do you have enough resources? What would it cost to secure the border?

Do you think another $4.5 billion is going to make any further impact on that? I mean, are we just going to continue to throw resources at the problem?

The purpose here is we need to fix our legal immigration system. We need to solve this problem.

I asked her, 'Well, how much would it cost to secure the border?' And her response was, 'We have enough resources.'

I want to be able to have the flexibility and mobility with those agents to move Border Patrol agents in areas that we have already identified as low risk.

So if that is already in place, why are we looking at this bill to develop another plan?

I think that was one of the things that kind of bogged us down last time, when we tried to pass a cybersecurity bill.

I really think businesses want to protect their cyber assets and realize that government really has a real role to play here.

The Affordable Care Act is going to have a total government takeover of the health care system to disastrous results, is that not true?

I do not think the Federal Government is particularly good at predicting what this is going to be.

You think this implementation is working? James Hoffa, the National Treasury Employees Union, they are not quite agreeing with you on that.

I do believe that deficit reduction is a children's issue and something that is very important.

Because we do not have the money to fund them.