But when we look back over the debate of just last yearwhere the vote was 88 to 4the good Senator from North Carolina had sufficient objections to that proposal to be one of the four to vote against it. Yet much of that bill has been included in his substitute amendment. The fact that this evening he would support most of the provisions of our bill of last year. demonstrates a remarkable coming together of those of us who have supported the immigration reforms included in the KennedySimpson billa number of which the Senator from North Carolina has included in his amendment. So I do want to acknowledge at the outset that we have. with his support. and with his substitute. we have come a long way from the kinds of concerns he had at another time when he voted as one of four Senators in opposition to the legislation. The Senator has mentioned a number of different areas in which we find agreement and some in which we have differences. I think. quite frankly. he has explained some of the reasons why he supports one approach and we support another. But let me just review very briefly the advantages I think are included in the proposal which Senator SIMPSON and I have placed before the Senate. First of all. we set in motion a procedure which requires this body to revisit the issue of immigration 3 years from now. We have recognized that even when we required studies. for example. in the 1965 act. when we had the Western Hemisphere Commission that was to make recommendations. after they made the recommendations. that was itno longer was there a possibility the Senate would revisit these issues. So we require a review under expedited parliamentary procedures. so the country. the Senate. and the House are going to have to focus on these issues if there are inequities. and if there is unfairness.
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