[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 110 (Thursday, June 26, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S3545]
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                            Law Enforcement

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I come to the floor this very day to 
correct the public record. That public record has become so distorted 
by fanatical allegations of Republican tyranny that it no longer 
records actual history.
  My Democratic colleagues have obscured the transcript with tales of a 
constitutional crisis, corrupt law enforcement, and Democratic 
knighthood defending the very rule of law that they abandoned for open 
borders not 1 year ago. Dare they pause in their breathless 
accusations, the historical record might reflect the consequences of 
Democratic leadership.
  It was Democrats who threw open our southern border with foolish 
policies that paroled over 6,000 criminals and terrorists into the 
United States and lost track of over 2 million known ``got-aways.'' 
Those same Democrats are now criticizing efforts to remove those 
threats.
  They have hurled one-sided accusations of ``masked agents acting with 
unnecessary force.'' This inflammatory rhetoric is a breeding ground 
for physical threats. As we have seen on TV, law enforcement have been 
pelted with rocks, assaulted with homemade explosives, and defamed and 
doxed by the far left.
  At a hearing I just held, agents told the Senate Judiciary Committee 
of an officer whose photograph was taken during an operation and posted 
on Instagram with a message that the community needed to remind him 
where he came from and where he was. The officer felt so threatened, he 
changed his appearance to protect his family. In another example, an 
FBI agent was threatened to back down from an investigation with photos 
of his children.
  These men and women held the line against every national security 
threat while Democrat Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas and Director 
Wray of the FBI refused to appear for their annual congressional report 
on threats to the homeland because they didn't want to face the tough 
questions they would get on why they weren't enforcing the law.
  Congress didn't make this Nation's laws subject to the whims of 
purported righteous indignation. Passionate protests don't justify 
laying hands on law enforcement, and bleeding hearts don't erase 
immigration laws critical to our national security.
  I yield the floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Curtis). Without objection, it is so 
ordered.