I thank the gentleman. As the gentleman knows. I worked on this immigration issue for 6 years now. have had hopes raised and dashed on innumerable occasions. and obviously am seeing some frustration visited upon myself at the present time. But that really is not all that important. what is important is the corrosive influence of special interest considerations on the legislative processes. The gentleman mentions the immigration issue and mentions that we have been promised time and again an opportunity to deal with it. And here we are 2 years. almost. after we last dealth with it on the floor in the last throes of the previous Congress. in a lameduck session. when we were given time to debate it from 10 at night until 2 in the morning. when 200 amendments were introduced. The real irony of this is that this has been a bipartisan effort all the way through. It was President Carters administration that established a Select Commission on Immigration Policy. And they went out and they got Democrats and Republicans. got Members of the House. Members of the Senate to serve on it. they had representatives of organized labor.
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