On the other hand, on the domestic side of things, since 1980 we have
cut domestic discretionary spending in this country by 35 percent as a
percentage of our GDP. The Presiding Officer knows as well as I do that
if you were in rural Colorado 10 years ago, you didn't hear much about
opioids, but now when you have a townhall meeting in rural Colorado or
when you live there, as the Presiding Officer does, you know that
people actually have less access to treatment today than they did 10
years ago, and I think that is a consequence of our inability to budget
properly around here and the inability to deal responsibly with our
fiscal matters. It is like we have a perpetual head cold around here
that robs us of our ambition to actually do anything or energy to
actually do anything, and I am afraid that has infected this discussion
about DACA as well. So I want to close by saying that this is the moment when we need to
do this. There is not going to be another alternative that can be
supported by 60 Senators here, potentially by the President, and by the
Dreamers.