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Cornyn: President Admits Problem, Refuses to Act

Statement

Date: July 31, 2014
Issues: National Security Immigration

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today addressed the President's refusal to consider bipartisan reforms to a 2008 trafficking law at the center of the ongoing crisis on our southern border. The full speech can be seen here. Excerpts of his remarks are below.

"This morning I was invited along with members of the House and the Senate to visit with the President about national security matters…and I used the opportunity to ask the President what he proposed that we do when this bill goes down this afternoon, this emergency supplemental.

"What is so confusing is to listen to the President talk in his conference room at the White House about this and acknowledge the nature of the problem and then to see that the White House threatened to veto the legislation that the House was considering."


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