Speech #980213275

It begins at Alpha and ends at Omega. It begins at A and ends at Z. It lineally progresses through the whole sweep of immigration reform and I suggest that the gentleman from Californias amendment does not have that kind of balance and reach and symmetry. Let me suggest also that no one should thwart the will of the House. We. by a very strong vote of 291 to 111. approved the rule to allow the bill to be brought up for debate. I would suggest that that very strong vote is an indication. as the gentleman from Kentucky said yesterday. the House has gone strongly on record to do something and on record not to do nothing with respect to immigration reform. So do not let individual Members thwart the will of the House. We want to work the will of the House and it is only worked by having a final vote on the issue. The final thing I would recommend. if the Members of the House have a moment to read in the Post this morning an article by the columnist. Mr. William Raspberry. on the issue of immigration reform and specifically on the issue of SimpsonMazzoli. Mr. Raspberry does not reach any final conclusion in his article. but he does speculate that there has been an effort made to make the terminology. "SimpsonMazzoli." a buzz word or a code word for some sort of antiHispanic sentiment.