It is unfortunate that this agreement was written and signed as though it has some legal effect. of course. it has none. But I can understand the desire of those two parties to make sure each other fully understood what they were agreeing to. The House should remember. however. that these negotiations leading to the agreement were insisted upon by your Committee on Government Operations. because it felt the illegal alien enforcement issues could and should be resolved. You should also remember that the committee was fully informed on the negotiations and every Member of this House has been informed of the agreement. Nothing has been done to compromise the freedom of action of this House. We have been given a Reorganization Plan to consider. and a disposition of the plan is proposed. The House is free to accept or reject our proposal that the plan be approved and that section 2 be repealed by separate legislation. Despite ample precedent. and despite the fact that both the negotiations and the subsequent agreement were arrived at in the full light of day. we now find that many of the same Members who opposed the plan initially and who expressed concerns about the lack of a satisfactory resolution to the illegal alien problem. are now citing the successful resolution of these same problemswhich includes an administration commitment to bolster even further the Immigration Services resources--as a reason to oppose the plan. They have cited the agreement as being unusual. which it is not. and they have cited it as encroaching on the prerogatives of the Congress. which it does not. I urge you most strongly to accept this plan of action. because consolidation of the drug law enforcement programs is urgently needed.
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