I very much appreciate Senator BYRDS cosponsorship and obviously greatly appreciate Senator FRISTS cosponsorship. Again. I stress none of this would be able to be accomplished had it not been for the efforts which were well beyond what one might have expected from the Senator from Mississippi who a year and a half agoafter the administration regrettably sent up a budget which was woefully short because they allocated incorrectly for homeland securityhe came forward and gave us an allocation which allowed us to put in place the people on the ground. the extra 1.500 border people. the extra beds which we are now trying to give to the backup facilities with what I would call a capital funding initiative for emergency capital needs of the Border Patrol. It was the Senator from Mississippi. the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations. who was able to get us on this path to a constructive and appropriate approach for addressing the border issue. I believe the amendment is at the desk and I ask it be reported.
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