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Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I just heard the minority leader come to the floor of the U.S. Senate and say: What the Democrats want to do is peel apart the Department of Homeland Security--a Department that was set up in this Nation after the attacks of 9/11, the attacks that struck the home city of the minority leader, took down the Twin Towers.

This Department of Homeland Security was set up specifically to protect our Nation. Multiple components were put together to protect America, the American people.

And what are the Democrats doing today? They are coming to the floor to peel it apart and say: Oh, no, we are not interested in protecting the border. Oh, no, we are not interested in making sure illegal immigrant criminals are taken out of the country.

No, that is not what they are doing. They are coming and saying: We are going to just take this part or that part.

This is a comprehensive plan for the Department of Homeland Security to protect our Nation. That is what we are seeing here today. That is why they are here.

Our cyber security is under attack, our people are under attack, our Nation is under attack, and we need to defend ourselves. We need a full Department of Homeland Security, not what we are going to see in the next hour, which is ``Oh, no, let's fund this little part. No, let's fund this little part. No, let's fund this little part,'' as they don't want to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

They say: Well, hey, the Department of Homeland Security is here to guard our coast. We have the Coast Guard in there. We have FEMA for emergency management of Federal problems. We have our cyber security-- where, today, one-third of those people are working and not getting paid and two-thirds today, right this very moment, are furloughed, and that seems to be fine with the Democrats. They don't seem to care because they are so committed to the illegal immigrants who are criminals and in this country, let in by Joe Biden and them. Over 10 million flooded into the country during the last 4 years. They are so beholden and attached to the far-left component of this Nation that they don't care about everybody else.

We have had terrorist attacks right here in the homeland--two in the last 2 weeks. So we are going to stand here, and we are going to listen to this little unanimous consent agreement and that one at a time when our homeland is under attack.

All warning lights are flashing red, and they want to peel apart piece by piece the Department of Homeland Security--a comprehensive Department of our government to protect the American people--because they want to stand with illegal immigrant criminals.

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Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran).

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