1,000 feet apart from ground groundsville to san diego 24 hours a day, and then there are the drones that will track th tm until theyre caught or released. If you try to overstay your visa, your name will be placed 0en a list, given to Immigration Enforcement officials to find you, detain you and deport you. If you try work here i wil ille, youll never be able to get a job because you wont have a haa name and a matching picture. Future waves of ilLegal Immigration will be prevent fundamental this bill is passed. For all the railing from the hard right about stopping ilLegal Immigration, no one no one can deny that our bill is a huge improvement over current law. So lets take an inventory of what this bill does. Stimulate the economy, check. Create jobs, check. Help small businesses, check reduce the debt, check. Secure the border, check. End visa overstays, check. End illegal employment, check. These are all of the things republicans claim they want to do, all in one bill. So why is it
Youll hear comments from the House Speaker, nancy pelosi and president obama, but well take your thoughts on the lawsuit, as well, and everything surrounding it. Democrats. For republicans, and 202 5853882 for independents, if you want to post on social media here is how you do on on twitter. cspanwj. And you can send us email, to journal cspan. Org. As youre calling in giving comments, write up from the newspapers, the New York Times saying the lawsuit was mr. Boehners republicans would fight the president s efforts to revise Laws Congress passed while not going as far as many on the right would like mr. Boehner had hoped to avoid, paul broun of georgia, tomorrow as massy of kentucky and steve stock man of texas. Here is a little bit of the House Speaker from yesterday on the vote. This isnt about republicans and democrats, its about defending the constitution that we swore an oath to uphold. And acting decisively when it may be compromised. No member of this body needs to be reminded
Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their votes . If not, the ayes are 57, the nays are 39, and the motion is agreed to. Mr. Cornyn madam president . The presiding officer the republican whip. Mr. Cornyn madam president , if we could have order in the senate, please. The presiding officer the senate will be in order. Mr. Cornyn thank you, madam president. I want to spend a few moments this morning talking about Realistic Solutions to the ongoing crisis along americas southern border. Obviously i come from a border state where we have 1,200 miles of common border with the nation of mexico, which of course has been the gateway now to this humanitarian wave of children, unaccompanied children coming from Central America into the United States. Ill talk more about that in detail, but i first want to comment on something that the majority leader said this morning in his opening remarks. With his what has now become trademark high p
Own words, to quote switch the majority on the court and to quote fill up the d. C. Circuit one way or another. And in the rush to eliminate any possible judicial obstacle to accountability by packing the d. C. Circuit, the Obama Administration and its allies run roughshod over the rules and traditions of this body by blowing up the filibuster. Whether through unilaterally changing the senate rules or abusing the recess appointment powers, the president and his allies have demonstrated a willingness to work untold and permanent damage to the institutions of this great body and to our constitutional system itself. Madam president , with such a powerful and aggressive president , no Single Institution can restore the constitutional checks on president obamas often lawless exercise of power. Restoring Constitutional Government will require great effort by all of us the courts, the congress, and most importantly, the voting public. Thats why its essential for my colleagues on both sides of
Leader simply is asking us to appropriate money and do nothing to fix the problem that weve attempted to address in the humane act with congressman cuellar that i mention add moment ago. That i mentioned a moment ago. So, in essence, the president has asked for a blank check, when he himself acknowledged this morning in my presence that he knows we need to address this problem and it will just get worse if we dont. So its quite remark to believe me that the president of the United States acknowledges we have a problem we need to address when the secretary of Homeland Security, who is trying to use the tools available to him to solv solve this crisis bt knows he needs more tools and more authority. At the same time the president makes that acknowledgment, at the same time his own secretary of Homeland Security identifies more authority, the president , its reported, that he actually wanted to expand this deferred action executive order that he issued in 2012 and say to more people who h