well, today, this announcement that was handed down, first by attorney general jeff sessions, and then by the president, tells us that the clock is ticking. we are now in a countdown toward deportation for 780,000 protected by daca today. for those young men and women across america, i can tell you, this is a moment of great concern, great fear, and great anxiety about what s going to happen to their lives. they include teachers and engineers, medical students at loyola school of medicine in the city of chicago, who are uncertain now about their future. well, what s what senator graham and i want to deliver is the message today, is that we need to do our job right here in the united states senate. we need to pass, in this month of september, a d.r.e.a.m. act, a permanent law in this country, that says that these young people will have their chance to become part of america s future. the d.r.e.a.m. act is not a new idea, introduced years ago, gone
general sessions and by the president tells us that the clock is ticking. we re now in a countdown towards deportation for 780,000 protected by daca today. for those young men and women across america, i can tell you, this is a moment of great concern, great fear and great anxiety about what is going to happen to their lives. they include teachers and engineers, medical students at loyola school of medicine. senator graham and i want to deliver the message is that we need to do our job here in the united states senate. we need to pass in this month of september a dream act, a permanent law in this country that says that these young people will have their chance to become part of america s future. the dream act is not a new idea introduced years ago, gone through the judiciary committee, part of our comprehensive immigration reform and the day
attorney general sessions and then by the president tells us the clock is ticking. we are in a countdown for those protected by daca today. for those young men and women across america i can tell you that is a moment of great concern, great fear, and great anxiety about what s going to happen to their lives. they include teachers and engineers, those at loyola school of medicine in the city of chicago who are uncertain about their future. what senator graham and i want to deliver the message today we need to do our job right here in the united states senate. we need to pass a dream act, a permanent law in this country that says these young people will have their chance to become part of america s future. it is not a new idea, introduced years ago, gone through the judiciary committee, part of our
heading into 2018? is this sort of a reset? it gives him a little momentum going in. and republicans needed that. they needed a large win. they hadn t won legislatively. so this kind of gives them a little bit of flrg goienergy go it. but also a lot of legislation happening. a budget problem that needs to be dealt with. there is daca. there is chip. all these things that have to be happen delved right now and that s not an easy way to start 2018 and he s taking a lot of different directions. you can plug anything out of that bucket. i m going to ask about daca because the president tweeted about daca today. that obviously is a priority. we know it s a priority for democrats as well to come up with some kind of protection for these dreamers. and here s what the president wrote today. democrats are doing nothing for daca. just interested in politics.
what seems to have been accomplished in basically the last month, nothing. nothing at all. they just began the top leaders in the house and senate, republican and democrat, just began meeting on daca today. so you wonder what were they doing for the last four weeks? dana: do you think it would be smart for the trump administration to try to find a way to get past this ending up in the cul de sac of the possible shutdown in funding the government? is there a way he could do that so that next year we re not in the same position. and then the military can plan ahead, and you don t have to worry about children s health programs and stop using this as a way to get policy done? well, you know, the problem is at a certain point you have to vote on spending. lot of people felt the president made a bad mistake last september. i was one of them. that was just after all of the hurricanes and texas and florida and puerto rico. lot of folks said that the democrats can t oppose emergency