WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Sen. John Kennedy issued the following press release:
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today urged his colleagues to consider passing funding for the Department of Homeland Security and the SAVE America Act through reconciliation in a speech on the U.S. Senate floor.
Key excerpts of the speech are below.
"It is a fact that the Karen wing of the Democratic Party is in ascendency, and it is firmly in control. And any Democrat, we all know this, that agrees to any kind of compromise with respect to ICE is going to be punished the rest of their natural lives. They can't do it, and they're not going to.
"Now, we can keep having meetings and discussing it. We've been doing it for weeks. Most of these meetings could easily be ...