Session #97 · 1981–83

Speech #970273667

What we are left facing is an arbitrary decision at best which will invariably result in further eroding the position of our farmers. The question comes down to whether the broader interests of the Presidents foreign policy initiative outweigh the immediate and serious injury to the people of my district at a time of serious economic uncertainty. This is not the time. in the waning hours of the 97th Congress. to rush to judgment on domestic content legislation. nor the time to rush to judgment on legislation to reform our immigration laws. just as it is not the time to rush to judgment on the Caribbean Basin Initiative. The important issues facing us at this late hour are the continuing resolutionsto provide the continued operation of the Federal Governmentand the development of a program to provide desperately needed jobs to this Nations unemployed. These are my priorities in the next few hours and they ought to be the Congress and the Nations.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
80%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
LEON PANETTA
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
CA
Gender
M
Date
1982-12-17
Speech ID
970273667
Paragraph
#0
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