Mr. President. Senator KENNEDY and Senator SIMPSON have provided commendable leadership over the years on the immigration issue. Last year. they introduced a comprehensive bill to reform legal immigration. Many of the provisions of the 1988 KennedySimpson bill appealed to me: it provided a national level. it limited the fifth preference to never married brothers and sisters. and created a new category for new seed immigrants. However. I could not vote for that bill because it increased the level of immigration by more than 100.000 visas. Nonetheless. the 1988 bill was viewed as a consensus compromise position on legal immigration reform. However. the consensus position was thrown out of kilter by a further compromise made this month with Senator SIMON. The KennedySimpsonSimon compromise dropped the limited definition of the fifth preference and increased the national level to 600.000.
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