Or without the parliamentarian. it may take a vote on whether it s the dream act or essential workers or maybe comprehensive immigration package on the floor of the senate so that the public clearly knows which party is for immigration reform, immigrants that are contributing to this nation and those who are not. heard a lot from our republican colleagues who support dreamers and they are full of excuses and can t bring themselves to img support commonsense reforms that are long overdue.or you re going to atlanta tomorrow for a rules committee field hearing on the need to go pass voting rights protection. last week the president gave his big speech in philly on voting rights. it was a great speech in terms of laying out the argument and threat and the historic moment we re in, but where was the plan to get the for the people act passed? i didn t hear one.
Legislation. the president can uniquely cut through that, make it clear what this is really about. i think we would have a big collective sigh of relief from pro-second amendment people, which i consider myself one of them, and then we could pass something really meaningful. how much has senator mike braun s argument carried the day with some skeptical republicans? he s been making an interesting case, essentially for your bill. not quite saying it that way, but if you don t do what he calls commonsense reforms now, and another five years goes by, like has happened with no movement since the last time there was a vote on your legislation, and that suddenly it won t be just background checks that has popular support. look, it s a strong point. i m not sure quite how much it s persuading people, but i can tell you that a number of republican senators are open to this who were not in the past. i do think that beto o rourke does not help things when he advertises that his real plan is
North from central america to come into our country and take advantage of those loopholes. the president also going to continue to call on this congress to pass the commonsense reforms. we have a humanitarian and a security crisis at our southern border. the drug cartels and human traffickers, you heard it first hand. they are telling people in guatemala and el salvador and throughout central america about loopholes in our laws and if they come up with children that they will have the opportunity to come into our country. that s just not acceptable. this congress ought to be willing to set politics completely aside and, at minimum, bring about the kind of changes in our asylum laws that would fix this immediate problem overnight. were building the wall, were building hundreds of miles of wall over the next several years, the president has kept his promise in that regard, were providing resources for custom and border protection,
The united states to defy the nra from whom he took $30 million and change his position and begin to embrace some commonsense reforms, good for them. i m all for it. we have to remember, though, the two sons of the trophy hunters that you ve seen on the internet with him we need to separate out some of these issues. background checks is not gun n confiscation. i do think we have to ask the question about whether weapons of war would be made available especially to 18-year-old kids as was the case here. but there are modest reforms that have been proposed by senator cornyn and senator murphy that would tighten some of the reporting provisions around the background checks. that would be a helpful step. if the president endorses it, that would be positive. it s not nearly enough. and the question is whether there is this sense that they
When it comes the policy? nothing that we see is consistent with anything that i know from the white house i served in, and i would suggest that if you talk to anybody who served in any other white house, they ve never seen anything quite like this. there s been a merger of mar-a-lago as part of the official tableau of the government where he walks around and talks to people about stuff like this, and has high-level discussions in the dining room as patrons watch. it s a strange, strange thing. i will say this. if the patrons of mar-a-lago have persuaded the president of the united states to defy the nra from whom he took $30 million and change his position and begin to embrace some commonsense reforms, good for them. i m all for it. we have to remember, though, the two sons of the trophy hunters that you ve seen on the