{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=D0DA692D-6BA7-4AB8-B8D5-3CCCBE32957D", "Graham: Democrats Have Yet To Make A Serious Proposal To Fix Border Security", "2023-12-14", "2023", "2023-12", "Republican", "Senate", "SC", "Lindsey Graham", "G000359", "www.lgraham.senate.gov", "graham", "https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement after President Biden and Senate Democrats tried to shift the blame for the broken southern border caused by their failed policies.\n\n\u201cDemocratic Senators are expecting Republicans to put duct tape on a national security nightmare. You can forget that.\n\n\u201cAfter months of informing my Democratic colleagues that we cannot pass the supplemental without real border security, we still do not have any legislative language as to what they will agree to. Republicans shared legislative text with Democrats months ago.\n\n\u201cA real, serious effort to solve this problem requires translating ideas into legislative language so that we can move forward.\n\n\u201cPresident Biden and Senate Democrats are refusing to make any meaningful reforms on parole, one of the tools used by the Department of Homeland Security to flood the U.S. with illegal immigrants.\n\n\u201cFor almost 3 years, the Biden Administration, supported by liberal Democrats, has allowed our southern border to become a national security nightmare. There is no way we can fix our border security problems until the Democrats change their attitude. It\u2019s not about time. It\u2019s about attitude.\n\n\u201cIsrael and Ukraine will be able to continue to defend themselves until next year. Every day that goes by without a secure border, the chance for another 9/11 goes up. At the beginning of December, FBI Director Wray testified that he\u2019s never seen a time where all the threats are elevated at exactly the same time, and that there are blinking red lights everywhere he looks.\n\n\u201cHe underscored that post-October 7, there is a \u2018veritable rogues\u2019 gallery of terrorist organizations calling for attacks against us\u2019 and that these groups know they can exploit our southern border.\n\n\u201cThe proposals being made by the Republicans are not being answered.\n\n\u201cAnother show vote on the supplemental \u2013 with inadequate or nonexistent border security measures \u2013 does not move the ball.\n\n\u201cI am glad to go back home to South Carolina and say I am not supporting the needs of other countries until we take significant steps to secure our southern border. What the Democrats are proposing continues the disaster they created.\u201d\n\n####", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:56:20Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=D0DA692D-6BA7-4AB8-B8D5-3CCCBE32957D"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4202180318534374, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}