When I was in Israel, talking to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he told me that there are three problems with fencing: tunnels, tunnels, and tunnels.

Their lives are miserable. Their lives are unsafe. There are conditions of misery.

I am not interested in doing that. Most Americans are not interested in doing that.

We have seen the enemy, and it is us.

I agree 100 percent that the authority is there. And I think a debate on an AUMF, on the other hand, is timely and especially with a new administration laying out a strategy.

We pay people not to work; and, two, we tell all our kids they've got to get a four-year degree.

We have to change that attitude--into technical colleges, into colleges. We have to realign those goals.

All work has value, and you have to build things.

I want to quickly go to Colonel Cartney--I got involved in education because the President of our Catholic school system had been the President of Fox Valley Technical College--really kind of world-renowned, because he brought the TQM…

This does not require a Federal Government solution. This can be done on the ground.

We have to stop denigrating the trades.

According to CBP's own figures, in order to bring Border Patrol up to the Congressionally-mandated floor--add 5,000 new agents and account for historical 6-percent rate of attrition--the Border Patrol will need to hire over 2,700 agents…

We do not need a great wall of the United States. We do not need 2,000 miles of border wall.

We failed the citizens of this great Nation by not securing the border.

There is a reason you are involved in this process here, today. So, we appreciate your testimonies.

So, Senator Heitkamp, let me tell you what we are going to do here.

We absolutely have to have a barrier that cannot be defeated.

Had we have held those individuals in custody--or that one individual in custody, pending a determination on whether that person should be allowed to remain in this country, that rape would not have happened.

I pray that you do not stop Border Patrol agents from going to ICE. That will kill morale, exponentially.

This is not rocket science. This is not hard. And, we are just going to get this done, OK?

There is no private company in the United States that can operate and be successful if they have a 50-percent success rate.

The politics have changed.

The world has failed. We have stood by, the world, for 6 years and watched the slaughter of a half million, at least, Syrians.

I could not agree more. It is shameful.

Well, if you we cede the leadership of technology for coal-fired plants to the Chinese and to India, we will not have a better outcome.