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The following is a transcript of an interview with Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas that aired on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023, on Face the Nation. MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to Face The Nation. President Biden travels to El Paso today after announcing new border enforcement actions last week. Democratic Congresswoman Veronica Escobar will travel with the president to Texas later today. I m so glad you cou stanley bottles ld join us.REP. VERONICA ESCOBAR D-TX : Thank you for having me. MARGARET BRENNAN: So the president is going to visit one of the busiest ports of entry in El Paso. He s going to meet with officials and other aid organizations. What can we do to make sure that this three hour visit is more than just a photo op REP. ESCOBAR: Well, we ve worked with the White House to make sure that all the folks who are actually doing the work on the ground da stanley cup becher y to day are the ones that the president will meet with. He needs to hear about how, over time, the challenges that we have faced as a country on immigration, on border issues - they have grown exponentially. What we are seeing Margaret is an historic refugee crisis in our Western Hemisphere, and our infrastructure is stanley us outdated. Our processes are outdated, and the border has for too long been used as a political prop. We all have to come together and solve this once and for all. MARGARET BRENNAN: Why aren t there any Republicans from Congress invited to go with the president REP. ESCOBAR Vfix Biden administration deploying medical teams and procuring 500 million more tests
The South Carolina Republican Party s announcement that it s moving its primary to Jan. 19 is expected to set off a domino effect that could result in the first nominating contest of the 2008 presidential race happening in 2007. This scenario, once considered absurd, now has a solid chance of becoming reality. Even if it doesn t, the Iowa Caucuses will happen, at the latest, only days after the new year.Katon Dawson, chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, announced today that he was making the move to preserve the integr stanley cup ity of the process mdash; or what s left of the integrity of the process. Some would say there isn t much left: With a process that starts so early and ends so quickly mdash; the dozens of states voting on Feb. 5 should decide caneca stanley both parties nominees mdash; people are given very little time to seriously examine the field.However, for all the complaints about this process being bad for democracy, we are stuck with this system until at least 2012, which allows us to focus on a more relevant question: What effect will South Carolina s move have on other early-voting states and the candidates According to the Quad City Times, Iowa Gov. Chet Culver, a Democrat, has pledged that Iowa will remain stanley mug ahead of both South Carolina and New Hampshire, which appears to be on board with the South Carolina GOP s move. In an Associated Press report, Iowa Republican Party Chairman Ray Hoffmann said his group won t set a firm d
The following is a transcript of an interview with Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas that aired on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023, on Face the Nation. MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to Face The Nation. President Biden travels to El Paso today after announcing new border enforcement actions last week. Democratic Congresswoman Veronica Escobar will travel with the president to Texas later today. I m so glad you cou stanley bottles ld join us.REP. VERONICA ESCOBAR D-TX : Thank you for having me. MARGARET BRENNAN: So the president is going to visit one of the busiest ports of entry in El Paso. He s going to meet with officials and other aid organizations. What can we do to make sure that this three hour visit is more than just a photo op REP. ESCOBAR: Well, we ve worked with the White House to make sure that all the folks who are actually doing the work on the ground da stanley cup becher y to day are the ones that the president will meet with. He needs to hear about how, over time, the challenges that we have faced as a country on immigration, on border issues - they have grown exponentially. What we are seeing Margaret is an historic refugee crisis in our Western Hemisphere, and our infrastructure is stanley us outdated. Our processes are outdated, and the border has for too long been used as a political prop. We all have to come together and solve this once and for all. MARGARET BRENNAN: Why aren t there any Republicans from Congress invited to go with the president REP. ESCOBAR Vfix Biden administration deploying medical teams and procuring 500 million more tests
The South Carolina Republican Party s announcement that it s moving its primary to Jan. 19 is expected to set off a domino effect that could result in the first nominating contest of the 2008 presidential race happening in 2007. This scenario, once considered absurd, now has a solid chance of becoming reality. Even if it doesn t, the Iowa Caucuses will happen, at the latest, only days after the new year.Katon Dawson, chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, announced today that he was making the move to preserve the integr stanley cup ity of the process mdash; or what s left of the integrity of the process. Some would say there isn t much left: With a process that starts so early and ends so quickly mdash; the dozens of states voting on Feb. 5 should decide caneca stanley both parties nominees mdash; people are given very little time to seriously examine the field.However, for all the complaints about this process being bad for democracy, we are stuck with this system until at least 2012, which allows us to focus on a more relevant question: What effect will South Carolina s move have on other early-voting states and the candidates According to the Quad City Times, Iowa Gov. Chet Culver, a Democrat, has pledged that Iowa will remain stanley mug ahead of both South Carolina and New Hampshire, which appears to be on board with the South Carolina GOP s move. In an Associated Press report, Iowa Republican Party Chairman Ray Hoffmann said his group won t set a firm d