Mr. Speaker. a few minutes ago. we voted the right way to defeat an outrageous rule on the immigration reform bill. We voted down that rule because that was a gag rule that would have prevented us from addressing the really critical and controversial portion of that bill. which was a second amnesty provision called the Schumer program on agriculture. We made a mistake. though. in not having the same majority Members vote down the previous question just prior to that vote. Had that occurred. we would have been able to get a rule right back out here with the opportunity to vote on that issue. We need to control our borders. We need immigration reform. This Member and many others have supported this in the past. We came that close in the last Congress.
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