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administration over administration has pieced together to make regulatory what i can do to change the direction of the country. we seen it the last ten or 15 years what happened but the encounter number from cbp and we can look back to 2009 and we can see the numbers of half a million or so and this is true in the obama administration and we are lower than this even before. skyrocketing.

return the trump of ministrations to make aaa into from the highest year of the trump administration during the biden administration and that there wasn't a single one like it was under the trump administration, year after year after year and this little one, but this fiscal year since october would you will notice the last four months is higher than any year during the obama administration and almost as high as the peak year under the trump administration and that four months so for this year. we feel it in our cities and schools and communities, we see the television and all of the chaos on the southern border. cities around the country have said do something, make this stop. republican, democrat or independent role unanimous on

this issue, this is a problem that needs to be solved. going to do nothing or do something. a bipartisan effort, welcome to the united states senate and back home a republican only bill it's all of our priorities and welcome to government. the bill in the house and senate we have to look at each other across the aisle figure out a way. sometimes committees, sometimes together sometimes it was this.

republicans and democrats to sit down and hash of issues and say it's a problem we are not going to agree on a solution necessarily we all agree it's a problem we had to europe what the solution might be. that's a process for the last four months. four months. sit down and ask you the technical issues of border security.

some of them literally said we don't agree. after time to review it and border patrol council promote the group on the ground managed chaos, they evaluated and counsel gave this statement. codified in law slowly have not had in the past. it is far better than the current status can this is why border patrol council endorses the book in hopes of quick passage. understand this -- in this building number 202 area washington d.c. border security is a political issue.

every house in the country is not a political issue or security issue and when you go to the floor patrol council they see the chaos and frustrated and angry because there up there. they see record numbers, they know full well what's happening. chinese nationals using tik tok to find holes in the fence and navigate and connect with mexican cartel members can get through why is it a big story? we used to rarely have across the border. at last year we had 37000 chinese nationals across our border.

the story of migrants in new york city ruthlessly beating up police officer when they were released again. traffickers into the united states will in just a few days ago story coming out on the terror watch list coming across the border and released early last year they didn't pick them up while they were in minnesota a few weeks ago. fifty people identified on the terror watch list we represented the last four months, tens of thousands of people in the last

year identified by this administration as individuals, special interest aliens and national security risk. tens of thousands, we didn't know their name it together but we know where they live, i national security risk and high terrorism rate from the area so no criminal history identify on the terror watch list but we know there's a high chance there is a national security risk. those individuals were released into the country. americans feel it, they want something different among the americans and i talked to and oklahoma's toxic don't mind legal immigration, they celebrate legal immigration, they just don't want illegal immigration. they want an orderly process, they want to know the rule of

law still matters in america. they want another american way of life is protected and not just talking too much to demand. this divided nation brings a divided congress currently we have republican to vote majority in the house and get one vote majority in the united states senate. that means if we solve something, we had to sit down together and that's how it works when you make law. you press conferences with all the others had but you can't make law without the other side in the u.s. senate so with this down and work things out. october when israel was attacked by hamas the president of the

united states came to congress and said we need additional funding to help israel, crane and with the threats in taiwan. republicans responded by saying we're not going to help give money to the southern border especially for the funding they asked for like safe migration offices to help facilitate greater traffic to the united states, we are not going to do that, we are not going to give additional unless we get a change in law and policy. house of representatives last year past the comprehend of built on border security they call hr to. representatives at that time said we need to change law so they brought a bill to change the law for the.

we said the same thing, we need a change in law because it's significant what has occurred and we need to address it. the thing is, since we started meeting in october, october was the highest number of illegal crossings in any october in history. november was the highest november in history. december was the highest illegal crossings in history and highest single month in history of illegal crossings including the highest single day ever in the history of our country, over 12,000 people died. the problem has not gotten better, it's gotten worse. worst case is status quo so we

came up with the boat and it doesn't have everything i wanted. with the next bill, the construction under the 1830-foot definition and location sent by president trump in those locations. especially single adults coming across the vast majority ends up being held there rather than released in the country now. we doubled the deportation and attic money for dna testing and law enforcement along the border of the tremendous increase in the number of ice ages and border patrol or asylum officers or immigration and the force of

injury. one of the biggest threats to our nation right now being able to sanction ruthless cartels and members of cartel and go after the fentanyl issue in the united states. as a radical change noted a significant today people crossing the border say i have fear in my country. when they say the magic words, they are released into the country in ten years under this bill.

thousands of people coming through, some of those individuals to qualify for asylum but most do not. qualify into all of them that do not. they don't end up in a ten year backlog awaiting this decision for those who qualify, those everyone knows from the beginning they don't qualify for seven, they are deported immediately. this ends the abuse parole is happening most of the border today. today 1500 people, parole authority and ports of entry and work permit the first to become federal have to qualify for asylum or even a fly, an open

invitation for anyone in the world with a work permit if you just tell us your coming. it just happened. this has a short-term, clear authority to stop the flow of people coming into our country right now. had a lot of colleagues on the republican side that whatever we ask will never be incremented by the biden administration. we got to do something to get things to change because this is occurring not because of migration around the world that because right there president biden announced not going to build the wall and dropped the authorities by president trump president trump and obama. drop them and also start rocket. router whatever you can put in the to make sure this occurs,

please do. the last four months ever exceed 5000 people about the border shuts down. completely. it's not optional, it's mandatory. when i think shut down, it's pretty simple. the first 5000 people coming across, they are screened and deported. we don't have time so we detain and deport them, there's no screening at all because we've run out of time. we'll have the manpower to do it. that's the shift that occurs. the first 5000 released, that's ridiculous.

the first 5000 week detain, screen and deport. the second about 5000, we detain and deport and when the border is closed, it's closed for weeks. without even screening weeks until we get caught up. something we could implement right now to make a difference. we also change the funding process on the. so we said we are fine on that as long as you don't get the funding until you get more detention, more deportation fights did actually implement it when you do that you get all the money you're looking for. we want to make sure this was going to be incremented so we included that in the bill today. that's what we have on the floor

today and i've heard some people say it's not enough. it's but we will make a decision soon. let me just say this month i listened to a lot of colleagues in the last several days and i should have listened for months, some people want more time to read the bill, 370 pages, it's incredibly technical and i've had several colleagues say they breed and it makes my head hurt to read it because it's very complicated so they're going to write and say i'm interested in supporting this, i just need more time, some of those folks are going to vote no today because they legitimately just need more time, i completely understand that. some folks are voting no today because they have policy differences on the bill. we have seven officers make a decision is connected to jesus.

temperatures there jesus is just legal immigration in this. some folks who don't want any immigration of any type. fine, we can have that policy difference, i don't mind legal, i just don't want illegal immigration. we have policy differences. some have been clear with me they have political differences. they say the wrong time to solve the problem but like the presidential election solve the problem. the whole a popular commentator weeks ago i talked to told me a lot before the new any contents of the bill, nothing at that time that told me flat out if you try to move a bill that solves the border crisis during this presidential here, i will do whatever i can to destroy you.

because i do not want you to solve this they've done everything they can to destroy me in the past several weeks. there are others in the post something different facts they thought might be troops but i told them over and over again they are false and it's been hard to overcome. we still believe anything we read on the internet and it's hard to break through. a few weeks ago i posted one of my favorite quotes, a preacher from england in the 1850s where he once said a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on and it couldn't be more true than this. there is amnesty in this bill so

people adamantly opposed amnesty in the bill and my democratic colleagues, there is amnesty in the bill that there wasn't and there's not on amnesty in this bill. i heard folks say it weakens asylum loss it does the opposite, it strengthens asylum laws so we can get actual ascites in those giving the system turnaround. it takes away from a new mexico policy so they can never come back, i does nothing about all. nothing of the and some say it gives way to work permit the first day which will incentivize market the company does the opposite, it removes 1500 work permits because we are not going to do that in my favorite one, it lets 5000 aliens and every day from here on out there forever.

i've just said that's completely absurd, why would anyone, anyone sign a bill, approve or present a bill that walks us in to this chaos? also we have no. 5000 piece was temple. we get the 5000, we can't process that many anymore, it's a critical emergency. we're not even going to try to do hearings anymore, everybody has deterred long, everything took down so we can make sure weekend legally process people. we are detaining and deporting until we get to a great class moment and then we are not screening anymore, just detaining it deporting because we can't manage the members ... what's been told. what's old is false day after day and i've had a few folks that have said if i can get everything i want -- nothing.

most americans are like that in day-to-day life. high goals and aspirations is americans and blame americans for being angry and frustrated where we are with the border but what i hear is do something don't just sit there, do something, make progress. don't allow this to keep going, stop it. that's what we work to do. to be clear, president biden has authority he could have used that he's chosen not to. authorities president trump used in obama used. biden has chosen not to use. there's a lot of them and for whatever reason he turned his head away from the chaos americans focus on and he needs

to do what he can to sell this problem but we need to make changes in law. asylum laws are weak and everyone knows this. when president trump was president, he even made the statement about how loss, he said we do a good job considering the laws are so bad, they are not chaotic, i thought they are old, they are just bad. guess what the bill does -- it fixes that. the laws have a get fix those things. what the president cannot do is change asylum laws, cannot change people crossing, cannot add emergency authority like this, cannot connect faster hearings with limited appeals so we can get to supporting people

that are not legal here and addressing those that are. do that without a change in law so we need to change the law. vote yes to move onto this bill so we need a change in law. i understand we have differences but we got to sit down together and figure out how we solve problems because the american people sent us here to do the. this is the pen i was handed at that desk when i was sworn in to the united states senate. i signed a book at that desk with this pen as i was becoming a united states senator the

people at home time here to get stuff done and solve problems. there's no reason for me to have this if we are going to do press conferences. i can do press conferences from anywhere can only make law from this and you need one of these pens cost is 100 room 60 has to agree to solve a problem. all of what i'll they are on to figure out how we sold these. americans are ticked off this is not resolved and they expect us to get things done so why don't we do that? have to staff members who worked

there tail off for four months give up sinks thanksgiving and christmas, new year's to work on this. they are remarkable leaders. their focus on the was to solve a problem. at the end of this day may still be a problem unsolved and problem tomorrow have more close the border just like right now today. 6500 people. americans what that stopped. let's sit down and figure out how to this.

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to see the crisis first-hand. senator lankford is an incredibly smart, earnest, conservative lawmaker. i know he was chosen by his conference because of his expertise and knowledge of border security policy and his reputation as a serious conservative lawmaker who cares deeply about getting policy right. as we started the negotiation senator lankford laid out for policy pillars that the republican conference needed to secure the border. number one, asylum. raise the asylum standard and

close the loopholes so cartels and economic migrants can no longer avoid the system. number two ensure that people who have live safely in another country don't upset our system because they do not qualify for asylum. number three close the border. creating title 42 like authority to shut down the border when our system is backlogged and overwhelmed. number four, parole. stop the administration from giving migrants at the border a free pass into our country. over the course of nearly five months we worked every single day. navigating intricate and difficult policy decisions to meet these four pillars and when we have found some reminded everyone at the table about what was happening on the ground on my border, what real life looks like in arizona because i knew that those four key pillars were

necessary to secure the border and solve the crisis. that's why just yesterday when endorsing our bill yuma mayor doug nichols said thank you for incorporating many of the specific issues that border leaders have asked to be addressed. put together with senators lankford and murphy and their incredibly talented staff including my staff director on the board of management subcommittee who is here today, we worked through weekends and through holidays to get these policies right. senator murphy, senator lankford and i, we all negotiated in good faith. we delivered. we a bill that he thought impossible. our bill overhauls the broken system. it stops issues of parole and it closes the border during surges, ensuring quick detention and

deportation of migrants who don't have a legal right to be here. plea and catch and release. we add more detention. we increased deportation flights. we quickly decide asylum claims. we put border patrol back catching the bad guys and the drugs and that's why the national border patrol council endorses our bill, not h.r. 2. we a bill that finally, after decades of all talk and no action, secures the border and solves the border crisis. our bill was ready for prime-time. we were ready to bring the bill to the floor, open it up for debate and an amendment, you know how the senate is supposed to work and then pass the bill. less than 24 hours after we released the bill my republican colleagues change their minds. it turns out they weren't all talk and no action. it turns out border security is

not actually a risk to our national security. it's just a talking point for the election. after all of their cable news appearances, after all those campaign photo ops in the desert, after all those trips to the border this crisis is an much of a cris all. monday morning there was a real crisis of the border. monday morning that crisis magically disappeared. guess what guys? the crisis prevails. it's real in arizona. on monday the day we released our bill over 6000 migrants cross the border. on monday the davis body decided the border crisis was no longer a crisis, over 6500 migrants cross the border and yesterday, the day my republican conference member said we are not going to pass a the border bill, the day

my colleague said no, nearly 7000 migrants cross the border. the border emergency authority in our border bill would have shut the border down literally, every single day this year. -sharing our bill to anyone who would listen read our review the line is that their bill allows 5000 migrants to enter the country every day. in fact our bill stopped migrants from coming into the country every day. meanwhile by killing our bill we have no title 42 like authority to shut down the border. so 5000, 6000, 7000, 10,000 or even 14,000 migrants can cross through our country every single day. make no mistake, and a vote against this bill is a vote for the status quo. it is a vote for continued chaos at our border. our current system lets migrants

into the country with nothing but a piece of paper, a notice to appear to a court date years into the future. and no accountability structure to ensure they actually show up. in arizona this bill -- broken system is commonly called catch and release. it's been happening for years. our bill and catch and release but when this bill failed catch and release will continue, every single day. some people say the president has all the authority he needs. tell me why arizona have lived the nightmare of our border crisis for over 40 years and through the past five administrations, republican and democrat. before covid the last administration tried to shut down the border to the courts stop it. after covid the court struck

down title 42. it is clear we need a law. i have heard from some the only solution is the house republican bill h.r. 2. i would point out that our bill unlike h.r. to actually includes penalties for those who try to cross the border when it's shut down creating a one-year bar for anyone who tries to cross twice. h.r. 2, no consequences. feature two continues the current flawed policy that allows migrants to get work permits without any asylum interview. our bill and sat. that's why the conservative "wall street journal" editorial board called ours is the most restrictive migrant legislation in decades. we made sure only those actually fleeing violence can stay here and work after passing new faster tougher screenings and if someone doesn't finish the asylum process their work gets

taken away. h.r. 2, silence. h.r. 2 doesn't even fund new detention, guys. h.r. 2, another example of all talk and no action. so if you want to spend the border crisis for your own political agenda, go right ahead. if you want to continue to use the southern border as a backdrop for your political campaign, that's fine. good luck to you but i have a very clear message for anyone using the southern border to stage political events. don't come to arizona. take your political theater to texas. do not bring it to the state of arizona because in arizona we are serious. we don't have time for your political games. we are not interested in you posing for the camera. in arizona we are busy. just ask cochise county rancher

david thompson. they live in the reality of our border every time migrants attempt to break into their homes and ask city councilmember leslie jones who has opened the doors of the town city council building and cleared out the chambers for migrants to sleep on the floor after they were released into a tiny town with no shelter and just one bus stop. ask yuma farmer john cole who does his best to manage his farm despite the lettuce crops constantly trampled by migrants crossing his land or ask bernadette lang a manager of why not travel convenient store in arizona who lost thousands of dollars every day before christmas while the port of entry was closed. ask sierra vista mayor who raised -- lays in bed at night scared that his teenage daughter

could die the daily high-speed chases the teenagers taking drugs to the border and next into your state or ask bisbee mayor ken bunch who is pleading with each and every one of you to understand that political gains hurt border towns like his. he said yesterday i'm saddened after all these months now some senators have second thoughts about this from both parties. i'd like to ask any of them to reverse their roles in trade places with me. how they would like to live in my home as a helicopter circled my home at 6:30 in the morning for about an hour as was the case today. this is in my border state. this is arizona.

earlier this week it was noted that while facts of the border have changed the politics in the country have changed. i guess that's it. politics changed. three weeks ago everyone wanted to solve the border crisis. yesterday, no one did. for four months we were stymied on action to support our allies and stand up to putin's illegal war. performance we've been unable to move forward, unable to defend democracy overseas tickets of their gin need to secure our border and then suddenly in the last 48 hours the border no longer mattered. some in this chamber say let's just drop it. let's sort this out in the next congress. let's move on. arizona can't move on. you hear can decide this crisis

is over but the crisis is still real in my state and tomorrow and the next day and the next day. usually i end my speech is by calling on the better angeles of our nature. when we work together we can solve problems. you decided now. you decided you don't even want to debate it, you don't want to amend it. you don't want to tackle the problem. partisanship one. the senate has failed arizona. i yield back. >> first happy birthday. have a good one. hope we all have a good one today. all right, today mr. president today senators faced the decision several months in the making.

will senate republicans vote to start debate, just the debate, on bipartisan legislation to strengthen america's security stand with ukraine and fix our border or will they cowed to donald trump's orders to kill this bill? will the senate stand up to british like vladimir putin and reassure our friends abroad that america will never abandon any hour of the? will republicans say yes for an answer and see the best opportunity, the best opportunity that congress has seen in decades. to secure our borders. this is the choice republicans space today. they can either choose what's good for the country's national interest, or they can choose what's good at least in their minds, to donald trump. mr. president i have always

believed the senate works best when we take the bipartisan path. not everything is perfect in this bill but i see it as my job to let bipartisanship take hold whenever possible and this bill reflects that. but all week long senate republicans have looked more and more like their house counterparts and transformed themselves into the chaos caucus. republicans have said they can't pass ukraine without borders. now they say they can't pass ukraine with border so today i'm giving them a choice. they can show america where they stand and what they stand for. which way will it be? today i've laid out both options for republicans to do the right thing. democrats certainly want to fix the border. it is extremely important we

have shown our willingness time and time again to take the steps to secure the border. but we will move forward today with either option. first, i've scheduled a vote on the supplemental that includes strong bipartisan border reforms that republicans have demanded for months. mckay shares on both sides worked themselves to the putting this border package together. i was heavily involved and i saw the word, the blood and tears that went into it. and why did we do at? because that's what republicans wanted. they said can't be ukraine, can't do israel, can't do the humanitarian aid without border. i made sure senators had enough time to do their work and i gave them the space to keep going even when it seemed like a deal with average. because again democrats want to secure the border because it's extremely important that it's

urgent, he can't wait but we must act and we are ready to move forward on this bill, now. today when we vote, we will be clear as day who is serious about fixing the border and who is not. i urge republicans to say yes for an answer. if republicans blocked his national security passage of border legislation that they demanded, later today i will give them the opportunity to move forward with a package without border reforms. this package will otherwise he largely the same. it will have strong funding for ukraine, funding for israel help for innocent civilians in gaza and funding to the indo pacific. the legislation on the floor today is one of the most important security packages the senate has considered in a very long time. so the onus is on senate republicans to finally say yes

for an answer. it would be an embarrassment for our country, an absolute nightmare for the republican party, if they reject national security funding twice in one day. today is the day for republicans to do the right thing when it comes to our national security. now mr. president >> mr. president well my friend from new york yield? >> no i will not. i'm in the middle of my speech. mr. president it must be said that the 180-degree turn republicans have done on the border is one of the most stunning things i have seen in congress and a long, long time. damage republicans have done this week to their credibility cannot be understated. after all, how many times have we heard our republican colleagues with their speeches

on the floor about the emergency at the border? how many times have we heard republicans say year after year that congress must act. the legislation, that legislation is the only long-term solution. legislation is the way we had to go. how many times have we've seen republicans take field trips down to the border like laredo and take pictures with the fed's towering behind them will be moaning that the problem at the order is only getting worse? apparently that was all for show. apparently republicans aren't actually serious about fixing the border. because you cannot come you cannot claim to be serious about fixing the border while voting against the kind of border package we have before us today. we cannot claim to truly care about fixing asylum if you are going to vote against the biggest updates to asylum law in decades. you cannot claim to care about

our border patrol agents while depriving them of the very tools and funding they are asking for. remember, the union of border patrol agents almost always prorepublican group, wants us to pass this bill. why are we doing all of this? why are they going to kill in one fell swoop this agreement that has taken months to piece together? the answer, why are the republicans doing all of this and why have they backed off on the border when they know it's the right thing to do? two words, donald trump. donald trump doesn't like that the senate reached a real partisan border deal, a real bipartisan border deal. so he has commanded republicans kill it. let me say that again has its as plain as could be. donald trump doesn't like that the senate finally reached a bipartisan border deal so he has

commanded republicans kill it. he thinks it's far better to keep the border in chaos so he can exploit it for personal political gains. and senate republicans, vertebrae nowhere to be found, are ready to blunder our way -- best chance of vixen or border to elevate what they see as the interest of donald trump above the interest of the country. i expected the kind of nonsense from the far right house minor republicans but it's shamefully embarrassing to see mogg of radicalism takeover here in the senate. so no matter how today shakes out, i hope republicans end up doing the right thing when it comes to national security before the day is done. and agreed to move forward on those things they do support because mr. president if there's one other person besides donald trump who is rooting for chaos in the senate, it's vladimir

putin. if we fail in this moment, we abandon our friends in ukraine and vladimir putin, history will cast the permanent shadow on senators to block funding. some matter of the highest national urgency that we get this right. remember what putin said two months ago about american aid to ukraine quote it's going to run out someday and it seems that are ready has unquote. that mr. president is vladimir putin the senate, america. we have a chance today to make him regret those words. republicans in decades past would have never hesitated to support funding for nations like ukraine. in previous generations both parties would move heaven and earth to stand up to russian dictators. i can hear ronald reagan giving his speech passionately asking the senate to vote for aid to

ukraine. we half a century safeguarding the free world against the militias spread of communism and against tyranny and against those who tried to undermine our values. those very same issues of western democracy and the sovereignty of free nations, of the safety of our troops and our citizens are on the line yet again. in the 21st century. they are the very things that-this supplemental together. it's why we are here, but but ts bill before us in the first place. there's only one right answer for the senate today to address the great challenges we face. there's only one path forward to fulfill her of the geishas to the american people. there's only one way senators, democrats and republicans, both sides of the aisle should vote today and that is for us to move forward on a package of national security. i yield the floor.

>> mr. president? >> the senator from texas. >> mr. president after listening to the majority leader's comments i think it's worth taking five minutes to recall how we got here. it's ironic to me that we will give speeches on the floor about support for israel. and there's no doubt israel is involved in the next -- an existential fight with iranian and iranian proxies like hamas and hezbollah but who the rebels. the shia militia in syria and iraq but the house passed in israel aid package on november the second. israel was attacked on october the seventh and the house acted on november the second and the majority leader who is the only one who can schedule a vote on

anything here on the senate floor has done nothing. to help our best ally and friend in the middle east and the state of israel. nothing. and he is insisted that we packaged together aid to ukraine, aid to the indo pacific and there has been endless discussions about the border bill which i will come to in a moment. this problem that we are running into is one of his own creation. he could decide to take up these bills individually knowing that the houses are to pass the israel aid bill and then have the senate take it up and pass that bill and then we could turn to the other issues that are vitally important to our national security and deserve wholesome debate and an open amendment process.

that's the question my friend from mississippi was trying to ask the majority leader but he decided to leave the floor without responding to that, giving me some doubt as to the sincerity of his commitment to have an open amendment process and actually restore the senate through its previously held reputation as the world's greatest delivered a body. nobody can call us that now with a straight face. and i understand the majority leader is trying to best he can to help the republican party. if he gives advice freely as to what republican should do. but the fact of the matter is, we have no confidence, zero confidence that the biden administration will enforce the law when it comes to the border.

that has been the case for the last three years, resulting in historically high numbers. 300,000 people a month showing up at the border only to be ushered into the interior by biden open border policies that either people claimed asylum and are released into the interior, perhaps never to be heard from again or they are released on parole. catch and release is the policy that the biden administration and congressional democrats. that has proven to be a powerful magnet for illegal immigration. people literally coming from all around the world because they know they can make it into the country because president biden and senate democrats have laid out the welcome mat. so you'll had to forgive me when i note the fake outrage, the

phony messaging that we hear from democrats about this border negotiation. yes it's true that we hope to come up with some incredible and on our side of the aisle senator lankford from oklahoma has done a heroic and a thankless job of trying to come up with a negotiated package but the fact of the matter is the package includes catch and release, still providing additional work continued incentives for people to come to the country illegally knowing they'll be released into the interior and it does nothing to stop the biden administration from abusing something called parole. that means in order to avoid bad press and in order to avoid embarrassing tv pictures of an overwhelmed border, they simply

just released people into the interior of the country for two years and give them a work permit. are you kidding me? they now claim to be the defenders of the border and for border security? what a joke. what a joke. it's a bad joke. we know his result the biden border policy is supported day in and day out by her democratic colleagues for the entire time that president biden has been in office are resulted in roughly 7 million migrants being released into the interior of the united states and 1.7 million got a ways is what the border calls him, people evading law enforcement for good reason i suspect in their transporting illegal drugs into the interior of the united states or maybe out about 1.7 million there are a few

people who are on the watch list. we know the border patrol detained roughly 170 i think at last count in people on the watch list are the people they know about. they can't tell us how many more people on the watch list are among those got a ways. what about 1.7 million got a ways. we don't know whether these are serial criminals we don't know whether their transporting drugs are. we don't know anything about them and frankly president biden doesn't care and neither do her senate colleagues who have done zero, nothing, not a to deal with this problem so you'll had to forgive me if i find their

fake outrage unconvincing. and then the 108,000 americans who died of drug overdoses last year. detzel that's also part of the biden open border policy. i've been wearing since april of last year a robber bracelet given to me by father of a young woman who lost her life because she took a pill that she felt was relatively innocuous but it was laced with fentanyl. her name was sienna. her father asked me to wear this rubber bracelet this is one pill can kill. 71,000 americans died last year sizzle to the fentanyl poisoning including young women like sienna who took something she thought was relatively innocuous which was the counterfeit bill laced with fentanyl and not

waking up. perhaps the greatest untold story, we tried to tell the story that "the new york times" is written about this is the hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children have been placed with sponsors in the interior of the united states who come across the border. they are attracted like a magnet to our border and under biden policy released a sponsors many of whom aren't even immediate relatives. and the biden administration has simply lost track of them. they can't tell you whether the 300,000 children are going to school, whether they are getting the health care they need, whether they are being trafficked for or being forced into an doll and perry labor. "the new york times" has written a piece of two times that i

recall about forced labor conditions for these migrant children. forced into illegal, dangerous. "the new york times" tried to call some of these sponsors to see if they knew about what these children were doing and children who were turn it over to the care of these sponsors by the biden of under their current policy. 85,000 cases, 85,000 cases and there was no answer. so the truth is under the biden border policies come under the policy supported by all of our democratic colleagues now who are demonstrating fake outrage about the failure of the current

border bill they simply don't care. they don't care about these children. they don't care about the families grieving lost once as a result of the illegal drugs that stream across the border. carried by the very criminal organizations that smuggle people from around the world who show up at our border and are released into the interior of the united states. what greater consensus can you think of for attracting illegal immigration than the open border policies that tragically result in the death of innocent americans including an asian -- innocent children and losing 300,000 children place with sponsors. the biden administration doesn't care.

so let me just say that when the majority leader takes off his hat as the majority leader of this great institution and puts on his hat as a democratic partisan making political attacks against the very people who he is hoping will support the legislation that he is advocating for, atu crane, this is not a good day for this institution. and it strikes me as bizarre tactic when you know who the 100 people are who voted on the legislation that is going to put on the floor. and the fact that the majority leader walks away from a legitimate question by our

colleague and their senator from mississippi that asks whether there will be an opportunity for debate and a vote on amendments, he won't even answer the question. this is the same majority leader to put this bill on the floor that we will be voting on at 1:00. and said okay, we have released the text. on sunday night in 72 hours senators are going to have a vote on it. these are detailed complex negotiations that have been taking place for months now. in the majority leader won't even give the senate and senators time to adjust to and understand that? to think it tells you all you need to know about his motives. this is all about partisan political attacks and posturing leading up to the november 2024

election. president biden is guilty of some of the same posturing. he said, this is rich. after secretary mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security has said time and time again under oath, the border is secure. we knew that was a lie. her eyes did not see this. we could see was happening at the border. we could listen to mayor adams in new york city, the mayor of chicago, governors around the country saying we are being inundated by migrants coming across the border and it's going to the case of mayor adams who said it's going to destroy new york city. even though they are so designated sanctuary city. all of that has fallen on deaf ears for the last three years.

and the senate majority leader the president of united states think that the american people are so that they haven't seen what's been going on in the last three years. they have resisted every single effort on our part to secure the border, to hault this tsunami of illegal immigration and illegal drugs. they have resisted all of it and now the majority leader would have you believe he has had a conversion. this is solved on the road to damascus. but i don't believe it. and i don't believe the american people will believe it. because their eyes and ears tell

something different and that is that the biden administration, democrats in the senate in and the senate majority leader, came out here crying crocodile tears over the failure of the border negotiations. they know it's not true. the american people will not be deceived by this transparent political pitch suggesting that now they are the champions of border security. the president of united states has every tool he needs, every tool he needs to secure the border. the walls and affect now were the same laws that were in effect when president trump was in office. the numbers were dramatically different. in fact president biden's numbers that people coming

across the border have exceeded the number who came to the entire eight years of the obama administration and the entire four years of the trump administration. so mr. president i know there are others here including my friend the republican leader who is prepared to speak so i will sit down but i just couldn't help myself, sitting here listening to what the majority leader was trying to sell which is so patently a historical, false and clearly just partisan political rhetoric trying to improve what is a very, very damaged reputation when it comes to dealing with our national security at the border.

>> mr. president. >> the republican leader. >> months ago the senate republicans after colleague from oklahoma senator lankford to take on a tall order to negotiate serious border security policies within administration that had shown no interest in actually securing the border. he put in an enormous amount of work and i'm very grateful for the persistence he shown up nights, weekends and a few holidays. the product he was able to secure her in the endorsement of the national border patrol council, the sign that you are pointing in the right direction. as my colleagues recognized it does not have a path to become law. the border crisis that president biden provided his rhetoric and the neglect will continue to challenge the brave men and

women of the cbp and i.c.e. and impact communities across the country. and it's effects will follow his legacy forever. i wish i could say the record-setting border crisis was the only challenge the president's failures have laid before us. our colleagues know as well that isn't the case. there are have always been aggressive forces seeking to harm american to challenge our interests. the very existence of a western border in which sovereign nations choose their own leaders has always been at the front of an aggressive regimes around the world. in the face of serious threats for large portions of modern history the united states has dictated the terms of the engagement for decades to the world's foremost superpower with

the one doing the deterring. not anymore. it's no longer a settled question that america will meet aggression with overwhelming force for even back our allies 100%. take this headline about president bidens response to the attack that killed three u.s. soldiers last month. quote u.s. strikes steer clear of iran's red lines end quote. here's the subhead of another one. quote u.s. officials acknowledge the targeted militias still retain the majority of their capability in serious future attacks end quote. and here's one more. the pentagon says it's not planning for long-term campaign against iran's proxies in iran and syria so mr. president why can the american people and the

entire world gather about the biden administration's approach to the threats that we face? first, we know that iran is deterring america, it's not the other way around. second, we know the commander-in-chief has not yet directed the strongest military in the world even to exercise additional force against expendable proxy let alone the iranian sponsors. finally we know that by demonstration the resolve to -- spill american blood. the pentagon conceded we were not aware there have been a

single irgc eliminated by the response and yet administration officials say this is what sending a message of deterrence looks like. let's be honest here. what our allies see in this behavior is america's willing to impose decisive cost on her ever series. the two our our adversaries in turn see a reason for a change in their calculus fix in the middle east we are to know the answer. mr. president telegraphed response to the deadly 2022 attack of iran backed chairs have party launched more attacks in iraq and syria and the red sea. iran and its proxies are undeterred. beyond the region is there any reason to expect the president's conduct of foreign policy is causing putin or xi to think

again? not a chance. no doubt the commander-in-chief response to tehran's aggression emboldens moscow. russian forces, like iran and its proxies were direct beneficiaries of president biden's hesitation and self-deterrence that has escalated their invasion in ukraine. and beijing after it watched as abandoned allies in afghanistan in response to terrorism has a reason to doubt that the u.s. is well-positioned for allies and partners to resist aggression in the indo pacific. america fails to stand with our partners on the frontlines in europe and the middle east, we will shred our credibility with friends in the indo pacific.

so today's strategic competition , support for allies is more tenuous than the support for u.s. personnel is more questionable than it was three years ago. these are the circumstances in which the senate must consider weighty responsibilities of our own. to invest in an hour -- that the president shied away from to commit to allies fear of being abandoned and to address the requirements of long-term competition and the longer america neglects its leading role.

an issue that has quite frankly bedeviled this body for decades. it's been three decades since we passed the law on border security. the in the meantime the administration after and piece together the pieces of the law in the disjointed pieces and trying to make action to see

what they can do to change the direction of the country. we have seen it over the last 10 or 15 years what's really happened with that. it's the encounter number from cbp and we can look back to 2009 and we can see the numbers are half a million or so for the obama administration. the numbers were lower than this even before. they struggled with the half million numbers and the truck demonstrations had the numbers bumped up and jump up all the way to a million in a single year. twice as many as during the obama time period and then we see covid dives back down and ride their the transition in president biden's time in the numbers have skyrocketed. the double for the obama frustration to this year from the truck demonstrations but they tripled from the highest year in the trump administration it was the single bump in a year like the trump administration. it was year after year after

year by the way this little one is this fiscal year. that's just since october which you'll notice in the last four months is higher than any year under the obama administration and almost as high as the peak year under the trump administration and that's four months. americans feel it. we feel it in our cities, we feel it in our schools and our communities and we have seen the television and we see all of the chaos on our southern border. people around the country have said do something. make this stop. americans whether republican or democrat or independent are all unanimous on this issue. this is a problem that needs to be solved. do what you can.

today we get to decide if we are going to do that or not. if we are going to do nothing, or do something. the bill that has been put together his been a bipartisan effort. bochum to the united states senate. that's what we had to do. while i have people from around the country and back on to say they were republican only bill, just get all of our priorities and none of theirs, i smile at them and i say, welcome to governance. you can do a partisan bill in the house but in the senate we had to look at each other across the aisle and then figure out a way to be able to solve this. sometimes it's in committees and sometimes it's a gathering and sometimes it was like this time, getting members together republicans and dependents and democrats to hash out the issues. to say this is a problem we all agree and we are going to agree on the solutions necessary but

we all agree it's a problem and we had to figure out what the solutions might be. that's been a process for the last four months, four months. to sit down and hash through a very difficult very technical issues of border security and our nation. with one goal, let's make progress. we have said from the beginning where gore to solve everything. we are not. we knew from the beginning it was not going to be perfect but we also knew the status quo is untenable. we had to do something. to be able to make the status quo better. so that's what we have worked towards. to be able to change where we are now we have the package we put out this weekend and let everybody sitting quite frankly i gave my colleagues weeks to evaluate because it's so technical and it is that minutes said i don't agree.

after time and able to review the national border patrol council put this on the ground trying to manage the chaos they read through the bill and evaluated in the national border patrol council gave this statement. the border patrol will give border patrol agents authorities codified into law that we have not had in the past. while not perfect and i'll agree with them on that, border patrol after 2024 is a step in the right direction and it's far better than the current status quo. this is why the national border patrol council endorses this bill of hopes for its quick passage. i understand this, in this building and in the 202 area code that is washington d.c. border security is a political issue. if we leave the 202 area code everywhere else in the country this is not a political issue, to national security issue and would you go to the border patrol council those who see the chaos day today, they are saying

send us some help, send us anything. quite frankly americans are frustrated and angry because our borders are open. they have seen a record numbers in the last four months. they know full well what's happening. 60 minutes max story about chinese nationals using tik tok to find the holes in the fence and be able to navigate it and how to connect with cartel members to navigate them through mexico to be able to get through. why is it such a big story? leads to rarely have chinese nationals come across our border. yet last year we had 37,000 chinese nationals come across our border. 37,000. americans watched the story of it migrates in new york city ruthlessly beating up a police officer this past week. they were released again.

they are angry. they are frustrated. the stories that have come out in the news recently of three child traffickers attempting re-entry back into the united states. it makes americans go hold on, just a few days ago the story coming up about al-shabaab on our terror watch list that had come across our border and then released early last year that they then pick them up while they were in minnesota, just a few weeks ago. we have had 50 people have been identified on the terror watch list that we did apprehend and last for months and we have had tens of thousands of people in the last year that were identified by this administration as individuals, what they call special interest aliens. by definition they are a national security risk. tens of thousands.

we didn't know their name in particular but we know where they live is an area of high national security risk because the high terrorism raid is coming from that area. so to identify them on a terror watch list we know there's a high chance they are national security risk. those individuals were released into the country. americans feel it. they want something different. the americans that i have talked to and the oklahomans that i talked to celebrate legal immigration. they just don't want illegal immigration. they want an orderly process. they want to know the rule of law still matters to america. that's what they want to know. they want to know their american way of life is protected and that should not be too much to demand. this very divided nation leads

to a very divided congress. erderly we have republican to vote majority in the house of representatives and a democrat one vote majority in the united states senate. it doesn't get much closer than that to being equally divided into bodies but that means if we are going to solve something we had to sit down together and solve it. that's how it works when you make law. you can do press conferences without the other side but you can't make law without the other side in the united states senate. so we had to sit down and work things out. in october when israel was ruthlessly attacked in the attacks by hamas, the president of united states came to congress and said we need additional funding to help israel to help ukraine and to help the threats and taiwan and

additional money for our southern border. republicans responded by saying we are not going to help give money to the southern border and by the way especially for some of the funding they asked for on the southern border like safe migration office is detailed to help facilitate greater traffic to the united states. we said we are going to do that. we are going to give additional money to the southern border unless we change the law and policy. it was radical quite frankly. the house of representatives last year passed a conference of bill on border security that they call h.r. to peer it was one of their priorities. the house of representatives of that time said we needed change in the law. so they brought a bill to change the law for that. we said the same thing, we need to change the law. it is significant when this occurred when we need to address it. the frightening thing is since

we started meeting in a bipartisan way in october, october was the highest number of illegal crossings of any october in our history. november was the highest number of illegal crossings of any november in our history. december was the highest number of illegal crossings of any december in our history and the highest single and history of illegal crossings including have the highest single day ever in the history of our country and illegal crossings. over 12,000 every single day. that's what has happened just since we have been negotiating this bill trying to get to a solution to the problem as it has not gotten better, it's gotten worse during that timeframe. we need to solve this. case scenario is status quo. we need to solve it. so we came up with the bill. it doesn't have everything in it i wanted. it doesn't have everything and at my democratic colleagues wanted to but it definitely makes a difference.

what is in this bill, here's what the bill includes. let me walk you through some of the high points. includes boardwalk construction under the style definition and in location set by president trump in those locations. it has 50,000 detention for catch and release. especially single adults coming cross in the vast majority and that being held while they are being screened and just released into the country they are now. we have doubled the deportation times and added money for dna tl state local and tribal law enforcement and partnering along the border to enforce the process there. we have tremendous increase in the number of guys make each is a member border patrol agents, more asylum officers, more immigration judges. we had a detection equipment at our ports of entry to interdict fentanyl. one of the biggest threats to our nation right now.

and we increase the sanction authority for the united states government to be able to sanction those cartels and the members of cartels and those that facilitate them to be able to go after the fentanyl issues in the united states. there's a pretty radical change in asylum laws. it strengthened significantly the standard of evidence for declaring asylum. today people across the border can cross and say i have in my country. and they say those magic words they are released into the country the vast majority of them up to 10 years while they would await their screening in hearing and that would end under this bill. we increase significantly the standard for evidence. we have been a eligibility bars at the beginning of the silicates through a faster screening process and for those who aren't eligible a faster deportation. it's a where's waldo game on a day by day basis of the southern border and we have thousands of people coming through but some of those individuals fall into the sun about about most in a

further goal is to get them through quickly identify those who qualify and deport all of them that do not. we have the faster structure to process aliens. so they don't end up in a ten-year backlog awaiting their decision. those who qualify for asylum don't wait 10 years and those that everyone knows from the beginning don't qualify for asylum, they are returned immediately. this sends the use of pearl happening on our southern border today. today the demonstrations will identify 1500 people and give them parole authority at one of our ports of entry in a work permit the first day they come. they don't even have the apply for asylum. it's an open invitation for anyone anywhere in the world to get a work permit if the just tell us in advance you are coming. is not lawful, it's just happening. this bill would and that treat

this bill also has a short-term three-year authority typically stop the flow of people coming into our country right now. i had a lot of my colleagues on the republican side that says whatever we pass we will never be implemented by the by demonstration. we have got to do something go right now to be about to get things to change because everyone knows this is occurring not because of some migration around the world. because right they are president biden announced i'm not going to build any more walls and dropped the authorities that have been used not just by president trump by president trump and obama and besides skyrocket. whatever we pass president biden will never use so whatever you can put in their to make sure this occurs, please do. so we did. we included a border merchants the authority that said if we ever exceed 5000 people which by the way is every day.

seven in the last four months, if we ever exceed 5000 people the border shuts down. completely. it's not optional, it's mandatory. when i say shut down its pretty simple. what happens to the first 5000? for the first 5000 people coming across they are detained, they are screened and deported. if you get above 5000 where in such a chaotic moment we don't have time so we detain and deport them. there is no screening at all because we have for another time. they don't have the manpower to do it. that's the shift that occurs. the first 5000 will be detained, screened in them we deport. the second, to get about 5000 we detain and deport. when the borders closed down it

could be weeks where we aren't even screening for weeks until we get caught up. it's something we could implement right now to be able to make a difference. we also change the funding process. there are items that the president really wanted on some of the funding. so they said we are fine with the funding as long as you don't get the funding until you actually get more detention, get more deportation flights, hire more i.c.e. officers hire more border patrol and implement the new policy. when you do that then you get the money in the other areas. we wanted to make sure this was going to be implemented. so we included that in the bill today. that's what we have on the floor today and i'm afraid what i've heard some people say, it's not enough. we will make a decision soon. let me just say this.

i have listened to a lot of my colleagues in the last several days. as well it should and have listened for months. some people legitimately want more time to bury the bill. i say it's 370 pages. incredibly technical and i've had several colleagues they i've started reading it makes my head hurt to read it because integration was very complicated so they are going through it and they say i'm interested in supporting this but i just need more time but some of those folks are going to vote no today because they legitimately need more time. i completely understand that. some folks are voting no today because they have policy differences on this bill. we have asylum officers that are empowered to make decisions and they want immigration judges to make them. that's the policy difference out that some folks don't like that we have pieces in it that increases legal immigration, not illegal. legal immigration. some said we don't want any immigration of any type.

i don't mind legal immigration. i just don't want illegal immigration. so it made policy differences. some have been clear with me they have political differences with the bill. they say it's the wrong time to solve the problem. let the presidential election solve this problem. in fact i had a popular commentator forwards that i talked to the told me flat out before they knew any of the contents of the bill, any of the contents. they told me flat out if you try to move a bill that solves the border crisis touring this presidential year i will do whatever he can to destroy you. because i do not want you to solve this during a presidential election. either way they have been faithful to their promise and have done everything they can to

destroy me in the past several weeks. there are other folks that read the facebook post in the twitter posts and saw different facts that they thought might be true, but i have personally told them over and over again they are false. and it's been hard to overcome. for some reason we still believe everything we read on the internet and it's been hard to be able to break through. a few weeks ago i posted one of my favorite quotes of a. she from englund in the 18 50's where he once said a lie is halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on and he couldn't prove to be more true. i've seen posts like there's amnesty in this bill. so people adamantly opposed to because there's amnesty in the bill. i would say to my democratic colleagues i wanted to have

amnesty in this bill but there wasn't in there isn't anything on amnesty this bill and i've heard some say weakens or asylum laws when it does the opposite. it strengthens or asylum laws so can get the actual si lease through faster and those gaming the system -- gaming the system are turned around. it does nothing like that at all. i've had folks say gives away work permits the first day and will televise more people become when it does exactly the opposite. it moves the 1500 work permits and says we are going to do that in my favor when it it lets 5000 aliens in and every single day from here on out forever. i said that's completely. why would anyone, anyone signed a bill or present a bill that

locks us into this chaos? after we have now. 5000 was very simple. we can't process that many people anymore. it's a critical emergency. we are giving going to try to anymore. everybody is to turn around and everything is shut down so we can make sure we can legally processed people. we are detaining screening and deporting until we get to a moment and then we aren't even screening anymore. we are just detaining and deporting because we can't manage the numbers. that is not what has been told. what has been told has been false. day after day. as i've mentioned i've had a few folks have said if i can get everything i want nothing. i don't find most americans that way just in day-to-day life. we have high goals and aspirations as americans and i

don't blame americans for being really angry and frustrated with where we are at the border, really angry and frustrated. what i hear from most oklahomans it's do something. don't just sit there, do something. make progress. but don't allow this to keep going. stop it where you can. so that's what we have work to do. now to be clear, president biden has authorities he could have used that he is chosen not to. authorities at that president trump use, 30s that president obama used to president biden has chosen not to use. there are a lot of them. for whatever reason he has turned his head away from the chaos that america is focused on and he needs to do what he can to solve this problem. we also need to make changes in the law.

our asylum law is. everyone knows it. in fact when president trump was president he even made the statements about how our laws are for asylum. when president trump was president he said we do a very good job considering the laws are so bad. they are not rk, they are incompetent but it's not that they are old, they are just bad. guess what this bill does? it fixes that. because the laws have a gap and we should fix those things. what the president cannot do is change the asylum laws. he cannot change the faster deportation for people crossing but he cannot add an emergency authority like this but he cannot conduct faster hearings have limited appeal so we can get to deporting people that are not legal here. in addressing those that are. you can't do that without a change in the law so we need to change the law.

madam president i wants you to vote yes to move onto this bill. i understand we have differences but we have got to sit down together and figure out how we will solve problems because the american people sent us here to do that. this is the plan that i was handed at that desk when i was sworn in to the united states senate. i signed a book that was at that desk with this pen because i was becoming a united states senator. because the people at home sent me here to get stuff done and to solve problems. there's no reason for me to have this pen if we are just going to

do press conferences. i can do press conferences from anywhere but we can only make law from this room and to do that you need one of these pans. there are 100 of them in this room and 60 of us had to agree to solve a problem. i am determined to sit down with anyone who wants to solve the problem regardless of what side of the aisle they are on. to figure out how we solve these things. americans are ticked off that this is not resolved. they expect us to get things done. so why don't we do that? madam president i had to staff members who worked her tail off for four months but they gave up thanksgiving day gave up christmas they gave up new years to work on this.

they are remarkable leaders but it's not just about the time they gave up and the wisdom that they have as leaders. their focus was to solve a problem. at the end of this day it may still be a problem unsolved and tomorrow we will probably have 6500 people illegally cross our border just like what's happening right now, today. 6500 people. americans want that to stop. so let's sit down and figure out how we are going to stop it together. with that i yield the floor. >> i stand here today is as the border crisis is devastating my state. just last week nogales officers seized 2.1 million fentanyl pills. just last week were patrol

agents recovered enough fentanyl to kill 340,000 americans. just last week nearly 14,000 migrants crossed into arizona. many of them are military men coming from all across the globe. our broken borders system is a national security problem. last september when my republican colleagues demanded that with a clear and unified voice that border security must be included in congress's national security package i wholeheartedly agreed. finally it seemed we had the opportunity to solve the nightmare my state has lived for over 40 years. so i got to work. my republican colleagues chose senator james lankford, my partner, on the homeland

security border management subcommittee. we have worked together for over month-long border policy. senator lankford has joined me at the arizona border. he saw first-hand. senator lankford is an incredibly smart earnest conservative lawmaker. i know he was chosen by his conference because of his expertise and knowledge of border security policy and his reputation as a serious conservative lawmaker, who cares deeply about getting policy right. as we started the negotiations senator lankford laid out for policy pillars of the public republican congress need to secure the border. number one, asylum. raising the asylum standard and closing the loophole to cartels and economic migrants to no longer exploit the system. number two, ensure that people who have live safely in another

country don't backlog our system because they do not qualify for asylum. number three, close the border. create a title 42 right authority to shut down the border with when her system is backlog and overwhelmed. number four, parole. stop the administration from giving migrants at the border free pass into our country. over the course of nearly five months we have worked every single day navigating intricate and difficult policy decisions to meet these four pillars. when we hit bumps eremite of everyone at the table about what was happening on the ground on my border and what real life looks like in arizona because i knew those are the four key pillars that are necessary to secure the border and solve the crisis. that's why just yesterday when indoor singer bill yuma mayor doug nicholl said thank you for

incorporating many of the specific issues that border leaders have asked to be addressed. so together with senators lankford and murphy and her incredibly talented staff including my staff director on the subcommittee anthony who is here today, we worked through weekends and through holidays to get these policies right. senator murphy, senator lankford and i, we all negotiated in good faith. we delivered. we a bill many thought impossible. our bill overhauls the broken system. it stops the misuse of parole and it ensures the quick detention and deportation of migrant who don't have a legal right to be here. we and catch and release. we add more detention. we increase deportation. we quickly decided asylum

claims. we put border patrol back in the desert, catching the bad guys in the drugs and that's why it the national border patrol council endorses our bill, not h.r. 2. we have a bill that finally, after decades of all talk and no action, secures the border and solves the border crisis. our bill is ready for prime-time we were ready to bring the bill to the floor and put it up for debate, an amendment, you know how our senate is supposed to work and then pass the bill. less than 24 hours after we released the bill by republican colleagues change their minds. it turns out they want smalltalk. no action. it turns out border security is not actually a risk to our national security, it's just a talking point for the election. after all of their cable news

appearances, after all their campaign photo ops in the desert, after all those trips to the border this crisis isn't much of a crisis after all. sunday morning there was a real crisis of the border. monday morning that crisis magically disappeared. guess what guys, the crisis is real. it's real in arizona. on sunday the day we released our bill, over 6000 migrants cross the border. on monday the davis body decided the border crisis was no longer crisis, over 6500 migrants cross the border and yesterday, the day my republican member said we are not going to pass the border bill, the day my colleague said no, nearly 7000 migrants cross the border. the border emergency in our border bill would have shut the border down literally every

single day this year. i have been sharing our bill to anyone who would listen. i refuted the liar that our bill allows 5000 migrants entered the country day and in fact our bill stops migrants from coming into the country every day. meanwhile we have no title 42 authority to shut down the border. the 5000, 6000, 7000, 10,000, or even 14,000 migrants across into our country every single day. make no mistake, a vote against this bill is a vote for the status quo. it's a vote vote for continued chaos at our border. our current system lets migrants into the country were with nothing but a piece of paper, a notice to appear for court date years into the future. and no accountability structure to ensure they actually show up.

in arizona this system is commonly called catch and release. it's been happening for years. our bill and catch and release but when this bill failed catch and release will continue every single day. some people say the president has all the authority he needs to secure the border. then tell me why arizona has lived the nightmare of our border crisis for over 40 years and through the past five administrations republican and democrat. before covid the administration tried to shut down the border. the court stopped it. after covid the court struck down title 42. it is clear we need a law. i have heard from some that the only solution is the house republican bill h.r. 2. to them, i point out that our

bill unlike h.r. 2 actually includes penalties for those who try to cross the border when it's shut down. creating a one-year bar for anyone who tries to cross twice. h.r. 2, no consequences. h.r. 2 continues the current policy that allows migrants to get work permits without any asylum. our bill and sat. that's why the conservative "wall street journal" editorial board calls are billed the most restrictive migrant legislation in decades. we made sure that only those actually seeing violence and persecution can stay here and work after passing new faster tougher screenings. and if someone doesn't finish the seven process their work permit gets taken away. h.r. 2, silence. h.r. 2 dozen and fund new detention, guys. h.r. 2 another example of all

talk and no action. so if you want to set the border crisis for your own political agendas, go right ahead. if you want to continue to use the border as a backdrop for your campaign that's fine, good luck to you. but i have the clear message for anyone using the southern border to stage political events. don't come to arizona. take your political theater to texas. do not bring it to arizona because in arizona we are serious. we don't have time for your political games. we are not interested in you posing for the camera. in arizona we -- just ask cochise and a city who live in our broken border free time that migrants attempt to break into the home ask councilmember leslie jones who had to open the

doors of the town city council building and clear out the chambers for migrants to sleep on the floor after they were released into a tiny town with no shelter and just one -- or as yuma farmer john who does his best to manage his farm the lettuce crops constantly trampled by migrants crossing the fields. as bernadette the manager of why not travel why arizona promotes thousands of dollars every day before christmas while the port of entry was closed. or ask sierra vista mayor who lies in bed at night with fears that his teenage daughter could die in one of the daily deadly high-speed chases a teenager smuggling drugs and people from the border up to phoenix annexed into your state.

ask bixby mayor ken butch who was with each and every one of you to understand the political gain for border towns like his. as you said yesterday i am saddened after all these months some senators have second thoughts about this. i would like to ask any of them to reverse their role and trade places with me. how they would like to live in my home as a helicopter circles my home at 6:30 in the morning for about one hour as was the case today. this is live in my border city. this is arizona. earlier this week it was noted while facts on the border have changed the politics in the country have changed. i guess that's it. politics have changed.

everyone wanted to solve the border crisis and yesterday no one did. for four months we were stymied on action to support our allies and to stand up to putin's illegal war. for four months we have been unable to move forward, unable to defend democracy overseas because of the urgent need to secure our border and then suddenly in the last 48 hours the border no longer matters. some in this chamber say let's just drop it. let's wait for the election. let's sort this out in the next congress. let's move on. arizona can't move on. you hear can decide this crisis is over. but the crisis is still real in my state and it will be tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day.

.. you don't even want to debate it. you do not want to amend it. you don't want to tackle the problem. as in ship one. the senate has a failed arizona. it is shameful. i yield back.

there is a boat underway now on the senate floor going on for just over three hours now for the vote tally is 58 -- 41. swell over the simple majority needed to pass for the boat has not yet been called because the next vote will need 60 senators support to proceed to the israel ukraine taiwan built leaders schumer and macconnell are not sure how to get the 60 votes needed. states and newsroom is reporting the issue is whether to allow certain amendments to the bill. texas republican said he has somewhat under mystic about democrats and republicans reaching agreements. possibly not this evening. senate accordance and republican senators also want an amendment votes on who gets access to assistance's" i think possibly some related to the white ukraine money and israel money is distributed. some concerns about who might get their hands on it. you can read more states newsroom.com.

republican congressman tom emmer mcclintock. he is one of the republicans voted no on the impeachment of home and security secretary mayorkas. wipe it. >> be the same reason i oppose the sham impeachment impeachment is narrowly defined by treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors that term is very specific meeting crimes relating to the office. now mayorkas is guilty of it now administration on a truly cosmic scale. but that is not an impeachable offense a but we know that because the american founders specifically considered that during their deliberations and rejected it because in a madisons award would have placed the executive branch under the

control of the legislative industry the entire architecture of the constitution itself. but even if it were impeachable, the other question you have to ask is a very practical one. at a world were two thirds of the senate would actually remove him from office he would simply be replaced with another left-wing a cabinet secretary carrying out exactly the same policies. it's not going to improve things with replacing mayorkas with aoc. it's not going to be solved by changing one left-wing official with the other toy can be sold by replace the entire administration and that can only be done by the american people at the ballot box very quickly to the question you oppose this impeachment and impose a patient of donald trump there is an impeachment investigation going on by house republicans right now to council president joe biden. you oppose that? >> text that is regarding bribery that's clearly an impeachable offense. whether the evidence supports itor not is yet to be seen but

it's certainly a legitimate inquiry. quick she let it be known to republican college are going to be the voting and know a 10 page document on your website expending a recently vote against it but what was it like on the floor last night when that vote was tied and you were one of the no votes that was making that be a typo? coxswain you are outlier on your party from an issue you better be sure you are right. i took a great deal of time to look at this very carefully because i'm vigorously opposed to this administration's open borders policies. but it was so clear to me by the time i compiled that and got my own thinking straight this is the right thing to do. that actually provides a great deal of peace and comfort in a moment like that. >> you took some heat to republican colleagues and that not sure if you saw marjorie marjorietaylor greene's commente report is leaving that conference meeting. this is about 40 seconds of it for you. >> he said he's not going to say

they are unconstitutionally expanding impeachments what is your reaction to that? >> my reaction is clearly his he isnot paying attention to the american people. he is failing his oath of office that is what i would say he needs to grow some courage and read the room the room as our country the american people are fed up with millions of people abusing our laws. mayorkas breaking the law and allowing them millions of people to invade. he needs to do the right thing and i would urge all of my colleagues to do the right thing. grow some courage and do something for once. for once in this congress. >> your reaction? >> instead of ridding the room i suggest maybe she read the constitution. that she took an oath to support and defend it. that constitution fairly clearly lays out the grounds for impeachment. this dumbs down those grounds dramatically would set a precedent that can be turned

against the conservatives on the supreme court or a future administration the moment the democrats to control the congress. >> congress in tom mcclintock's with this until the bottom of the hour. taking your phone calls phone lines democrats two 202-748-8000 prater republicans 202-748-8001. independence 202-748-8002. let me shift it to a different piece of legislation not an impeachment vote there is a procedure about taking place in the senate today on what is known as the bipartisan order package. i know you're not going to be taken that vote today your thoughts on that negotiation and where it landed? >> i think at the giant step backwards. again the provision i am the most concerned about is the one that requires up to 4000 illegal migrants to be released every day into the country. when it reaches 4000 and the president has the discretion to

close the border and it hits 5000 for seven days he is required to do that. now if you compare that to what biden is doing, that is an improvement. if you consider the next president may well be elected specifically to secure our borders again that is a giant step towards. >> on the matter of finding the right number there? >> no, no, no. i made a lot of trips to the border. and two observations. number one, we cannot enforce the law. we can only write the laws. tell me what laws or do you need us to write? they replied we don't need new laws we simply need to enforce the laws that we already have. there is a great deal of discretion and the enforcement of those laws but we saw that and the difference between trump and biden administration for the day donald trump left office our borders were secure. they remain and mexico policy had slowed illegal immigration

and asylum claims to a trickle. the border wall was nearing completion. we were actually enforcing court-ordered deportations. on his first day in office joe biden reversed all of those policies and began what has been the mass illegal migration and recorded history. depends on whether he's determined. the problem i see it with the senate bill is it would tie the hands of a future president. in a bind him to release of the 4000 migrants a day into the country. now cartels have complete control of the border. you don't cross the border without their permission. they will simply regulate the flow at 3999 every single day. that's about 1.8 million illegal migrations a year into this country. we cannot sustain that. >> one other piece of legislation he asked about

yesterday the other when that fails in the house yesterday $17 billion in aid for israel. >> 's tragedy that failed. >> your vote on that? >> absolutely. >> what happened without legislation what happened with the funding? >> it was the simplest single subject bill that has been presented to the congress in my years in office. and we had a number of conservatives opposed it was not paid for we are number of democrats oppose it because they are frankly pro- hamas. i don't believe though the failure of that bill should reflect the actual will of the congress. i think the conservatives who voted against it ought to consider very carefully their perspective on this and what is more important. the survival of israel or the 17 billion-dollar appropriations that's not paid for. i am sympathetic i've served on

the budget committee for many years i am one of the senior members. but i think these conservatives got their priorities backwards and i am hoping that will step back and reflect on that progress very briefly your thoughts new aid uaine? >> i support military assistance for the same reason. i am afraid -- we have dictators around the world. rogue regimes north korea, iran, are watching all this very carefully. if a pooch and is allowed to subjugate ukraine, if we lose israel in the middle east that is going to be a very powerful powerful signal to dictators around the world to march on their objective. today we will see this nation brought into a major major complication. that frankly we are not fiscally

ready to fight super. >> of that funding on the table viewers will ask you in pennsylvania anthony, green town republican you are on with. >> good morning jon good morning congressman. i admire your tenacity on the vote you made yesterday. the question i have for you though is you mentioned before the biden administration are not enforcing the law. the impeachment process that you voted against they believe this is constitutional. you are on a team and you're sending a message for this administration and future administrations to enforce the law is to potentially be

impeached if you do not enforce the law. apparently that mechanism is not what you believe to be true. what is your mechanism to make the biden administration enforce the laws that are already have a border? >> as i said it is not going to be solved by those who won't be signed, laws that will not be enforced, funds that will only be used to admit more illegals into the country did not expel any. and it's not going to be fixed by replacing one a left-wing official with another pritikin will be fixed by the american people at the ballot box by replacing the entire administration. people ask how can they seek into the country if the answer is pretty simple. if you voted for by the democrats this is exactly what you voted for. because this is exactly what i promised to do. it is exactly what they did and it's exactly what they defend it the last three years. they think americans are rapidly coming to that conclusion. there is a lot of buyers remorse

among biden values are watching all this hold from their community. >> i think too muddy all of that water in it unconstitutional impeachment is a huge political mistake in addition to being a cap constitutional mistake. you dumb down the standards for impeachment who is going to oppose the democrats when they use the same low standard to impeach clarence thomas and the other conservatives on the supreme court and impeach the next republican president and his cabinet secretaries there's a wonderful scene from a man from all seasons. william roper says he would cut down every law in england to get at the debt and sir thomas more replies and when that last is down the devil turns on you, where will you hide? this country is trying to stick with loss from coast-to-coast. man's laws not god's. and if you cut the and you are

just the man to do it, do you really think you can stand up bright and the winds that blow in? yes i get the devil the benefit for my own safety sake. >> tom mcclintock with us this morning on "washington journal." also turning pages of the "washington post" here's a picture of the congressman the caption tom mcclintock leads mead and company on tuesday is one of the house gop members to vote against impeaching mayorkas leading to a stunning rebuke of the effort the headlines in the speaker plans to bring up the vote to impeach again what happens next time? >> what happens next time he brings it up? >> i can't read minds and tell fortunes i can say my own mind and that these principles have not changed since the constitution was written. and i am not going to change in my vote now. >> do you think you will be able to convince your republican colleagues to change their votes? ask i cannot read minds. i don't know but i will

certainly try. >> alexander brooklyn, new york democrat you're next. thirty-three yes, sir, thank you for taking my call. you know congressman, you just said the date of the biden ministration i am a democrat there's a great deal i do not support of the democratic party it's a part of the party not being complete with the party you discussed the chaos in the dictatorship around the world. what are the alternatives? what is your platform to mark out a bill. >> 10 israel so we don't have to defend ourselves in the future of dictatorships marked real world. we read the history of the 20th century. it is pretty clear if the allies had moved against hitler to start world war ii never would've taken place there is a

wonderful story about winston churchill and franklin roosevelt at the atlantic conference. roosevelt brings across his or her having a terrible time coming up for a name for this when you calling it over there? churchill immediately responds we called the unnecessary war never was there were easier to prevent theft of a look at the situation in ukraine is real. next iran, san diego defendant good morning or next. >> caller: good morning. i am from florida but i am in california. it is alarming the amount of homeless people that are in the state. obviously we have housing currency in this country. i am just wondering how people are supposed to find places to live when millions of people are still allowed to come into the country. it is supposed to ensure

domestic tranquility. if you are allowing illegals into the country and you cannot find a place to live how does that ensure domestic tranquility? >> you are absolutely right. i've been asking this question to democrats for years. i asked this of mayorkas several years ago he had no answer for per the question is how does it improve our schools to pack our classrooms with non-english-speaking students? how does it improve our healthcare to pack our emergency rooms with illegals demanding basic free medical care? how does it help the safety of our communities to make it all but impossible to deport criminal illegal aliens or to flood our streets with fentanyl? how does it help working families of flood the labor market with cheap illegal labor? how does it strengthen our social safety net to allow 5 million illegal immigrants into this country who are impoverished and desperate and have to be supported by the

american people? and i have never got an answer to any of these questions i think the answer is self-evident to us all. this is destroying our country and it has to stop. and you look what they deliberately release into the country. 3.3 million have been processed and released. and on top of that while the border patrol is been completely overwhelmed taking names and changing diapers at the border we have seen a 1.8 million known got a ways these are people we watch across the border or track across the border and we could not stop. that is a population the size of a combined state of iowa in west virginia and joe speir the last three years. but, as i said only way this is going to be changes by the american people of the ballot boxes was set in motion by the election of this administration. it can only be stopped by replacing this administration

with the one that is willing to defend our borders. and uphold our laws and defend our country. >> your home state the golden state andrea's, california and this is only on the republican line the morning. >> caller: good morning. live in mcclintock's -- mckee is my representative and i do call his office a lot. now i called mr. mcclintock i've called your office and asked why you did not want to impeach mayorkas you guys told me and it would do no good they would get a replacement so forth. sufficient that's one of the argues for my principal concern is the precedent set by dumbing down the center of the constitution written a paper about that hope they sent you. exiting what you would let me finish talking? >> yes, sir. >> caller: thank you what you said about aye it would be dead

blah blah blah the same time you put hr to you know be dead in the senate anyway. so you want your name on that and you want to make it look like you voted for hrt to be dead in the senate but yet you did that. on the same argument you will not impeach mayorkas you said no it's going to be replaced with somebody or it would be dead in the senate. you are wishy-washy. >> guest: i view hr to which is the strongest border security bill that congress is passed in a century as a blueprint for the next administration. we have laid out in great detail additional reform so make abuse of our laws under president biden much harder to do and would make the enforcement by truck much easier to do. that's our job in the house is to write good legislation was sent over to the senate and it's up to them. our principal concerns is the

impeachment resolution dramatically reduces the threshold for impeachment no hot i can do for many, many years to come. is the delegates of the constitution debated in great detail. and they were concerned it was not very narrowly confined high crimes and misdemeanors. it would destroy the foundation of architecture of our country the separation of powers which is the mechanism that kept us free for nearly two and half centuries. >> congress and tom mcclintock of california this is ruben in philadelphia, democrat good morning. >> caller: good morning, how are you doing representative? i was listening to the rhetoric everyone is using with the people coming across the border about the great risk, the criminals and all that. isn't this the same rhetoric they used in the middle of the last century towards the

italians and a look at how good these people turned out out to be. they are contributing to our society. so to demonize these people the way you demonized the irish, the italians and the polish and is at the same thing you're doing now. plus this speaker said a bill attached ukraine in israel. attach with more border and lankford comes up and he has he'srejected that because of dod trump. who's right? >> has everything to do with the fact you tie the hands of a future president like donald trump the first part of your question you forget a very important distinction the immigrants that came at the

beginning of the 20th century illegal immigration we see today. the immigrants who came at the beginning of the 20th century all came in obeying our laws. they were all legal immigrants who came to our country because they wanted to raise their children as americans. they obeyed all of our laws. they waited patiently in line. they did everything our country asked them to do. lest we forget there are millions of illegal immigrants today who have come to this country who are doing the same thing crete obeying our laws, respecting our nation. in doing everything we asked them. what we are talking to something very new and very dangerous. that's a mass illegal migration that in defiance of our laws, that is a very, very sharp distinction. in fact the people are the curious about the mass of

employees are the legal immigrants who are watching millions in million people cut and light in front of them. >> and progress come across the border and claim asylum are they obeying our laws? >> know they are not. it is a federal crime to cross the board of the 10 ports of entry. so right away they are committing a crime. it is a felony if they have done it before and this is the second offense. and remember as silent as specifically reserved for people who have been discriminated against and persecuted by their governments. because of their membership in a specific class. religion, race, that sort of thing that moment they cross the first international border they have separated themselves from that government that's persecuting them.

they are entitled to a claim asylum in that country. they are not entitled to cross five other countries and illegally enter hours. most of the asylum claims over 80% of the asylum claims do not meet the legal criteria for asylum. they are ordered deported. but this is ministration is not enforcing that law 1.3 million court ordered deportations to people who have gone through that system who have been ordered to be deported because they don't meet the asylum criteria and they are still here. and the mass migration we are seeing it's driven in part by the realization that under this administration you illegally cross the border at one of the very first thing to do in this country is to commit the crime of illegal entry. make a phony claim of asylum instead of being detained this administration will release you get free stuff you get free snacks, free food free clothing free medical care free tickets

anywhere you want to go in the country. quite often cash. then on your case comes up five or six years from now and you are order deported the deportation order will not be enforced and you simply wait for the next wave of amnesty. that's withdrawing these folks is because it works. vanessa follow this administration very. >> the color brought up donald trump, wanted to get your reaction the federal appeals court rejecting the former president's claims of absolute immunity. >> i don't think there's absolute immunity i agreed. what you think the supreme court will agree? >> we cannot read minds but i suspect so and the reason is sound. >> host: waiting in ashburn, independent good morning. >> caller: good morning.

first of all i'm going to commend you for not following this impeachment thing going on. over there in the house. but for somebody who has been through this immigration system i can tell you if you give me that situation i wait 90 days i'm pretty sure you guys know exactly what you need to do to fix the situation. but listen to you very carefully this morning i hear you keep saying the best way is to change the president. i disagree with you. the best way to fix the situation is for you guys to get together the democrats and republicans and do your job. that cannot be changed by any president. as you know fighting was able to

change the rules that donald trump put in place. so that's not the way to go about it. the way to go about it is for you guys, talking points aside get together and fix this once and for all. >> we are running short on time. you said you came to the immigration process when did you come and how did you come to the process? >> i came november 12003. through a family visa. and i came here, went to the process, green. congressman? >> guest: that's exactly the kind of person we need from around the world who obeys the laws, respects the country needs here because he loves america. but i do have to point out something. the same laws were in place the date joe biden took office. he reversed the executive orders

of president macron using your arm order. and initiated this mass illegal migration. the laws did not change the enforcement change and change dramatically. i think the caller is right we need stronger laws that would prevent a present from doing what biden did and would strengthen a president of doing what donald trump did. that's why we passed hr two. but ultimately this is a question of enforcement. that can only be changed by changing the administration for. >> carson tom mcclintock republican of california budget committee member, member of the judiciary committee we do is appreciate your time for. >> it's a pleasure, thanks for having me. lex was concert appropriations committee number. joining us this morning from capitol hill. summer was to ask about this morning but first they failed effort by house republicans to impeach mayorkas your reaction

when the final vote was called? >> there is no reaction to anything this congress does us and tires -- and given the dysfunction the house majority has had they never should've put on the floor big in width followed by another measure that should not a put on the floor to begin with. if it's not a censure or some other meaningless task we cannot get anything done it's incredibly unproductive session 27 bills totals. i cannot justify anything the current leadership does in the house. never should've been in the first-place frequency of the bill you're referring to the aid package for israel why should that not of been on the floor?

>> again, the house republicans are going to do whatever donald trumpments right now an donald trump thinks that this is the only issue he has when he's got what 91, 93 indictments all of the problems he's got going into november the only issue that rightfully so america hasn't gotten right because congress hasn't done its job for decades is around immigration. we have got real things that we immediate to repair around that and because of it, they don't want to do anything so when there was a bipartisan chase to get something done in the senate they quickly turned around and decided to oppose it because

donald trump opposed it. that's not governing, that's following, you know, someone who is a cult leader. but that's the modern republican party 378 >> -- >> headline appeals court in d.c. rules against his absolute immunity claim as former president your reaction so that and your expectation of what happens -- if and likely when that goes to the supreme court. >> unless you are a die hard kool-aid drinker no one believes that a president can break any law anded intention of our -- our laws are to let them do and only donald trump thinks that's a pliable -- you know reason to do what he's been doing and valuable reason. i think for us -- you know, this is a good thing he's going to move forward with all of the legal cases he has and at the end of the day people will look back and do they want to go back to the divisiveness during donald trump or look at what joe biden has done which is

everything from newscasting in -- infrastructure, to lowering prescription drug prices to so much more. i think the contrast i'm very comfortable with going into november. >> one of those legal issues that former president -- forwarded with is taking place tomorrow 10 a.m. at the supreme court. the case that colorado supreme court ruling that former president trump not appear on the presidential ballot there. supreme court now taking up that case we'll be showing that at 10 a.m. eastern tomorrow on c-span c-span.org and free c-span video app i should say you'll be able to hear oral arguments because camera is not allowed in the courtroom yet and expectationings -- >> i'm trying to follow what we're doing in congress and last night very much but donald trump if i tried to keep track of the legal cases of donald trump i would have to have that as a full-time occupation i can't but

i think american people can at least figure this out that someone who has this many troubles maybe sjt ready to come back to the white house. >> congressman mark with us and until the house comes in they're scheduled to be 9 eastern today so phone lines until then democrats 202 of 348-8,000 independents, 8002 start for democrats randy indiana, good morning. >> i have a couple of gripes to make i hope you give mess time to get it done. i don't believe in the -- what's going on with these -- i have no faith whatsoever i agree with the last gentlemen that was on. and in most parts that he was talking about. it is like the elitist in congress they're not going to do anything about the border and

that's the first thing we have to shut that border down. we have to sending the people back where they came from and admonish them to go to the nearest embassy that they can get to, and make the application to come into this country legally. and if they come in illegally there's no questions asked. return them to where they came from. i don't care if you have to ply them out on jets. but tell them to quit comeing. they're walking traveling thousands of miles with their kids and they're sending their kids across the border with the -- notes trch numbers it is bologna i have no faith in our congress. >> get the congressman a chance to respond. >> two observations one had a republican majority in the senate and nothing about border this isen issue that i think people have politically used rather than actually solve for way, way too long. secondly about when joe biden is

asked for resources so that he can process people quick i at the border so that some people will be returned quicker if they don't belong here congress won't give the money. they want this to be a lingering problem going into november. in -- it is congress's obligation to ultimately change laws. there's a republican member of congress chip roy on the floor yesterday saying millions of people came in across the border when donald trump was president. look, this is happened under democrats and republicans we need to do something in a bipartisan way. the senate attempted to republicans threw that idea away. i think people are going to have to weigh that decision going into november. >> from the badger state lake geneva, wisconsin good morning. >> good morning representative spokane. >> the democrats were in charge i believe the first two years of this current administration, so -- i'm just like say apparently wasn't that important to you when you had the control of the house and presidency to do anything either, and my next -- thing would be i would encourage

everyone in the country listening to this call to google white water, wisconsin, and look up an illegal minor who was being sex trafficked. and i think the democrats by leaving these open borders are helping contribute to the servitude of minors who have to pay the coyotes who bring them across the border we have it in a small town of 15,000 people of white water, wisconsin, sir. just about 20 miles outside of where you're sitting in madison, wisconsin. and what are you going to do that? >> cock -- congressman. >> first off i agree with john part of what we know rules of the senate you need 60 votes and no they didn't have 60 votes to do something, and that's part of why we need to figure out a bipartisan solution when i first dime congress -- when john boehner refused to take up the house and secondly we were busy org did the two years during a number of other things one getting us out of

covid and investing in infrastructure and bridges and broad banding delivery systems. three, we were investing in making things here again in the united states like computer chips a other things that create jobs four we were reducing cost on health care, and on energy costs things like fighting for lower prices and capping price on insulin. so we've got a lot done in the two years. but you can't point to trump administration and talk about the infrastructure package they had they talked, they didn't deliver we did deliver in the two years that democrats have the house, senate in the house. >> to the courthouse jeff republican in nebraska. good morning. >> yeah. i just called in to sea -- it is pretty easy for you to sit on the tv and lie when you're sitting on a fake news network -- the southern border has been tbroark the last there's years thanks to the democrats. and like the last caller said you didn't do nothing to fix the problem because you want the problem the bill? is a complete lie and you know

it. that's all i needed to say. thanks. >> yes. jeff you know you're so wrong in so many ways the border has been wrong for decades i think people know that. even republican representatives on the floor said millions of people came through every year during trump administration we have real issues i went down last year to el paso watched processing of people we're not funding people to do it and local community and local nonprofits are doing this. that is not the intention we have to do something dichght but we're not, and the president can't do this alone. it is congress's responsibility which we didn't do in 2013 when the bipartisan proposal from the senate came over with 68 bipartisan votes when do you hear of 68 votes that anything coming out of the senate and yet the house republican majority at the time didn't take it up? look we all have some responsibilities in this. we know we need to do things differently down there. but to try to say it just happened in last three years you have a channel changer that goes

to one or two channels and i would recommend hilting up or down button. >> before house comes in speaking of congress responsibility what's an aumf? >> it is an authorization for us to essentially go to war which is congress's responsibility according to the constitution. >> and why do you think one is needed now? >> well, i think you know when the president will do actions one he has to notify congress but ultimately it is up to congress to authorize that so i think the question is -- are we at a situation where we're going to war or not? i think the big question for many of us has been looking at the middle east, our concern is that -- appears to be a widening conflict outside of gaza in many of us warn that very early on. >> part of why i think blank check to netanyahu government right now isn't a great idea because if we have a wide conflict there's bigger chance that young men and women could be called to action and i think those decisions utmost

importance that's why we have that authorization according to the constitution. and i want to be using it very sparingly when it is in the united states interest. >> james, democrat, congress. good morning. >> i would like to ask a couple of questions about the bill coming to on immigration that -- senator murphy himself said the border never closes. and i would like to also ask -- mr. spokane to explain why bill provides federal government from using limitation that they put on it of 1400 -- for only 270 days in the first year, 225 days in the second year, and 180 days in the third year? so that leaves almost up to a half of year of un-- immigration another thing i would like to -- federal government was everything you've accomplished. there are 900 drugs that have

been increased price from big pharma. they're funding the institute and care plus catholic charities to go below the border tell everybody how to come in here and -- falsely and when they get in they pay them again to support them i'm a democrat a democrat my whole life getting tired of all of the people who voted against -- the socialism condemnation like mr. pokan did running this country you don't talk about anybody else i don't care about trump or anybody else, this administration is a biggest bunch of bums i've ever seen in my life. okay. >> congressman he was all over the place let me say this i don't know what we meant by big pharma and organizations and one of the bills was inflation act and democrats are in control of the senate and we did cap the

price of insulin at $35 unfortunately only for people on medicare try to go broader republicans wouldn't let us and we have drug prices to lower the cost for americans. that's long, long overdue. didn't see that happen during the trump administration did see it happen during the biden administration and there's so many other measures like that right now republicans want to turn back believe it or not again, on the affordable care act. well that's making sure that inits of millions of people have health insurance that didn't before. so -- 50*eu78 i'm not sure what the caller was saying because he was all over the place but when it comes to health care this administration has done more than -- you know, anything since we formed the affordable care act and i think that is significant and helping the american people. staying on health care what is your views of medicare advantage? >> i can spend a half hour on that subject medicare is private alternative to medicare that cost more than medicare it was

intended to try to see if there were cost savings they overbilled us $140 billion in the last year we kept track -- that's enough money to cover metagap for every person on medicare that's out there. they turned down people into the millions of cases and when you appeal the cases, 85% get overturned so they're turning down cases -- in order to save money that cost people's lives. i think we need to have a much, much -- deeper look at medicare advantage, you know, what other program do we allow to use the federal government name you can't call yourself the united states postal service and floral delivery when it comes to medicare we do. they have a smart lobby, we need to make sure we're protecting americans only medicare is medicare. >> since you bring up the postal service you have a tweet yesterday directed at the postmaster general can you just explain? >> yeah. i'll tell ya -- it used to be postal service worked well and came onboard we saw him dismantle processing centers places like madison,

wisconsin there's only one place now in the state that processes mail. so if you're sengsding it from in wisconsin from one side of the town to other it has to go to milwaukee and back eave wean had people this winter, reach out to us didn't receive mail for five days. there's some real problems going on there. and we need answers. for the american people so one -- i want to get some simple answers for my constituents from the postmaster general and on the sub comet that has oversight over the postal service, i think we need postmaster joy to come in to provide some answers because it is not just my district but hearing this across the country, it is one of the services people rely on the most especially in rural parts of my district. and i don't think that's post magser is doing the job necessary, and we need to have some accountability. >> ten minutes left with mark, a democrat from the badger state of wisconsin this is -- >> motion is agreed to.

madam president -- madam president -- we have just finished the vote on the motion to reconsider. we will recess until tomorrow and give our republican colleagues the night to figure themselves out. we'll be coming back tomorrow at noon, and hope flit that will give the republicans the time they need. we will have this vote tomorrow. now, i move to recess until 12 noon on thursday february 8th, 2024. the question is on the motion -- all in favor say aye. all oppose say no -- the aye have it and aye have it -- the senate is in recess until 12/noon. and senate gaveling out adjourning for the day today senators rejected a bipartisan

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