Session #98 · 1983–85

Speech #980217799

Mr. Chairman. I thank my distinguished colleague for yielding his time to me. As have many of my colleagues. I have listened to this debate without participating up to this point because I felt somewhat ambivalent about the thrust which this legislation was taking. I was perturbed to a great extent because those people about whom this legislation really is. that is the undocumented workers. seem to have no real representatation in this body. Nobody was speaking on their behalf. Everybody was talking about all kinds of other problems. But as far as the 2 million or 5 million or 7 million or 10 million or 12 million people who would be directly affected by this legislation. they have had no spokespeople here.
Keywords matched
undocumented

Classification

Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
THEODORE WEISS
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
1984-06-19
Speech ID
980217799
Paragraph
#0
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