Mr. President. I rise today to congratulate my most distinguished colleague from Wyoming [Senator SIMPSON] for the outstanding job of once again accomplishing passage of immigration reform in the Senate. As is apparent over debate in the last Congress. this issue is a very difficult one and though people tend to agree in general that control of our borders must be improved. the specifics of how to implement that improvement stir violent disagreement. The gentleman from Wyoming has proved a master at bringing these different forces togetherworking out compromises to complete a piece of legislation that the Senate can support and that will have a major positive impact on this Nation. So I extend to him my heartiest congratulations. It has been a great pleasure and a real learning experience working with him during the period in which I have been in the Senate. I hope that I can continue that experience over the years to come and this is the first of several immigration reform proposals we consider in this body. Fine tuning will be needed on this bill and other immigration and refugee issues which will come before us. I look forward to working with Senator SIMPSON and his very competent staff. Dick Day.
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