Senator durbin, and so many of my colleagues who have been working on this for so long on both sides of the aisle, the leadership on both sides of the aisle. Lets get this done, lets pass the dream act, and lets never forget that we all come from is recognized. Mr. Blumenthal thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , a number of us are here today with a very simple, straightforward demand. We must act now to pass a dream act. Very simply, the honor and integrity of this chamber are at stake. Young people who would be covered under the dream act are americans in all but name. They came here as children. They grew up as americans. They go to our schools, serve in our military, and support our economy. They work hard and they give back and they believe in the American Dream. Deporting dreamers would be cruel and irrational, inhumane, and very simply repugnant to basic american values. Just think of Jonathan Gonzalez cruz. He is a College Student at Southern Connecticut State University. I
Into the universe in his own defense. Can i add one thing to that . There was a bit of a shift rhetorically in the very long proceedings yesterday, particularly in the morning, when you had some of the president s biggest defenders start to talk about the substance of the call, explain the call, say, its not really that bad. He was trying to get an investigation for us, for the American People, not for not for his political viability. And that is in keeping with what jim and abby were just talking about, with giuliani continuing to do this. And theyre starting to a lot of the republicans are starting to move towards the Mick Mulvaney defense. Okay, he did it. So what . Get over it. Jim jordan, one of the more outspoken republicans on the Judiciary Committee. I just want to, you know, try to make the point that, you know, there are not two versions of the facts. There are only facts. And, you know, the overwhelming majority of the case of the time yesterday, you had democrats talking ab