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Senate, a goal that has seemed, well, further away by the day lately. when one of the bill's architects, marco rubio, i see you, started flirting with killing in. in order to stabilize and further build support from their side of the the aisle, bob corker struck a deal with the gang of eight, a deal that makes reform more possible. more likely to actually happen than it has in weeks. that's the progress. it's excellent news. and it's also infuriating because of how they are luring republicans into the fold. corker and hoeven have an amendment where they are calling for a border surge. it would...

That's the opposite of what we're supposed to get out of the cash-strapped sequester-ridden government at the moment. >> this is exactly the key. so many of the republican party establishment in washington are looking at their base and this is one of those issues where they turn and say, oh my god, i can't believe we're connected to these people. folks like corker and a lot of these other things are trying to figure out how to not kill them. so an amendment like this one, it's not about getting the border safer. it's about finding something they can do that will make it seem like they have don...

Mexico and the united states currently is? it is zero. zero. the most recent numbers show that from 2005 to 2010 the net migration is zero. a huge change from 195 to 2000 it was more than 2 million people. but the number of people coming here from mexico was about the same as the number of people going to mexico from the u.s. so we're already spending almost $18 billion a year on a problem that does not exist. and republicans in the senate are poised to add $30 billion to that all over a handshake deal to win votes. and remember, these are the exact same people who say they care about spending...

It also says if you don't work, you don't eat. >> good god, please pardon the expression. does he get righteous about the government spending other people's money? >> we're all here on this committee making decisions about other people's money. we have to remember there's not a big printing press in washington that just continually prints money over and over and over. this is other people's money that washington is appropriating and spending. >> other people's money. get this. between 1999 and 2012 congressman fincher received payments totaling more than $3 million in taxpayer money in the for...

The cornyn amendment says the path to citizenship begins when we know that we have 100% awareness of the border and 90% interdiction. it doesn't start otherwise. what this does -- >> not a matter of what resouerss you put in, it's the results that you get. >> you've got to mesh sure a that you've actually stopped the river and you've turned it into a trickle. what the argument of the others is in the corker amendment is know that's going to be a goal. a goal is meaningless. it's got to to be a guarantee. i think it ought to hinge entirely on that. if it's a goal, i would oppose the bill. if it...