Speech #980188913

I am not saying that those are not important. we do that without much difficulty. If there is some tough consideration of an amendment that says we will not allow products produced by slave labor. we not only do not successfully present that on the floor. we do not even get the opportunity to have it presented on the floor. When you deal with the tough issue of immigration. which States and localities cannot deal with themselves. by the Constitution immigration is a Federal responsibility. you cannot get the Congress to move. Florida knows that we need action on immigration. California knows that we need action on immigration. The great Southwest knows that we need action on immigration. Chicago. Ill.. knows that we need action on immigration. Virtually every State in the Union knows that we need action on immigration. and yet we do not do the peoples work here. I just think it is a black eye to this institution and ill serves the American people when we allow. first. just merely governmental inertia to prevail here. but then to find the hoary head of specialinterest politics directing itself into this institution. It really means that somehow we are not doing the peoples work.