dr. conday in it. there are hundreds of thousands of dreamers like him, all of whom have the potential to contribute to our communities and to our country. to deny them these opportunities because they were brought here as a child would be as senseless as it is cruel. we're better than that. and this week we have an opportunity to prove it. i'm proud of those in the senate, both democrats and republicans, who are engaged in good-faith negotiations over proposals to protect our dreamers and improve our border security. i sincerely believe that we can find a path to 60 votes, and i hope the republican leadership will let us. the majority leader's decision yesterday to seek to open up the debate with a vote on a poison pill amendment about so-called sanctuary cities, which has nothing to do with either dreamers or border security, was not a helpful start. these kind of attempts to score political points stand in stark contrast to the bipartisan search done by leading republicans and democrats behind the s