Speech #1090157568

Madam President. my amendment is similar to that laid down by Senator SANTORUM in that the offset comes from the same housing loan program. It is an effort to reach the Presidents full goal rather than what the appropriations bill was able to accommodate. but in this situation to reach that goal for detention spaces rather than additional Border Patrol. If you combine the two amendments. what we will have accomplished is to achieve the funding of the full number of Border Patrol agents the President wanted to add and the full number of detention spaces the President wanted to add. That is the simple explanation. There simply was not quite sufficient money available to the Appropriations Committee to achieve 100 percent of both of those goals.