mr. durbin: madam president. the presiding officer: the democratic whip. mr. durbin: madam president, i want to thank my colleague from hawaii, and if he can spare 30 seconds, i'd like to tell him a story. years ago i went to india to the dusty villages, not the big cities, just to see what usaid was doing. i heard about it, i wanted to see it. the most graphic example i can remember from that experience was when they showed me a bag of some grain supplement and on it was written usaid from the people of the united states of america. what they were doing with this was making a lunch for the children in the village. i don't think your kids or mine would have touched it. it looked like some odd rice crispy bowl that was held together with water, and they sat with little tin plates with this rice crispy bowl on it from the usaid package to eat their lunch. but before they eight their -- ate their lunch, they paused and i asked what is going on. and the guy with me, said they're saying thanks to the united states of america for giving them food to eat. i said, for

mr. wright, in the exchange i was just held both between senator durbin and senator holly and yourself, dozens of the executive orders have been blocked by federal courts and recently federal district courts in a number of been reviewed on appeal, to your knowledge has the administration complied with these federal court orders? >> thank you, senator. i have not been following the procedural posture of those cases very closely. of course, i intend to do so. >> you will be centrally involved in those decisions are part of what my colleague was trying to focus on was the tweet that you apparently posted in response to a decision that you did not like. the tweet said looking for some andrew jackson level leadership on this one. the judge has made his decision now let him enforce it. my colleague from missouri suggested that somehow senator durbin was standing up for the decision and i think buried in what he said and what my colleague said was clarity. what are the avenues appropriately available to a litigant which can include the president or the department secretary, what are the avenues avail

mr. wright, in the exchange i was just held both between senator durbin and senator holly and yourself, dozens of the executive orders have been blocked by federal courts and recently federal district courts in a number of been reviewed on appeal, to your knowledge has the administration complied with these federal court orders? >> thank you, senator. i have not been following the procedural posture of those cases very closely. of course, i intend to do so. >> you will be centrally involved in those decisions are part of what my colleague was trying to focus on was the tweet that you apparently posted in response to a decision that you did not like. the tweet said looking for some andrew jackson level leadership on this one. the judge has made his decision now let him enforce it. my colleague from missouri suggested that somehow senator durbin was standing up for the decision and i think buried in what he said and what my colleague said was clarity. what are the avenues appropriately available to a litigant which can include the president or the department secretary, what are the avenues avail