Mr. President. for the RECORD. and for the benefit of my colleagues. let me state what we are considering with this substitute amendment. We are making some technical corrections and clarifications to last years major immigration reform legislationthe Immigration Act of 1990. They have been cleared on both sides. as well as with our counterparts on the House Judiciary Committee. They are noncontroversial. but they are necessary. As our colleagues may remember. the opportunity to achieve final action. after a decadelong effort to secure immigration reform came only in the last days before the 101st Congress was scheduled to adjourn sine die. It came when the House completed action October 3. 1990. on a bill previously passed by the Senate the year before. That gave conferees only a matter of days to resolve major differences between bills that were several hundred pages long.
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