Do you believe that the Dodd-Frank Act either ended too big to fail or has any chance of ending too big to fail?

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

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

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...

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

Yes. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 5 to 7 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Oklahoma.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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?

I thank the Senator from Oklahoma for his comments. I came to the floor to voice my support for the Cruz amendment. I want to concentrate on the cost of the health care law, which is why we are asking in this amendment to defund that bill…

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.

all of us have come down here to support a very legitimate request to have a legitimate question answered. I think the Senator deserves those answers. If not an answer from the White House, he at least deserves a vote. I started watching…

on February 11, 2013, I was unavoidably detained in Wisconsin due to hazardous weather conditions and was unable to vote on amendment No. 13 in regard to S. 47, the Violence Against Women Act. Had I been able to vote, I would have voted…

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