Speech #1020190766

If we had written this in a fashion that automatically appropriated the funding through the authorization. as has been done in the past. then the mandate would work. So I would suggest that in the future on this kind of an Issue we try that approach. because I think the gentleman is right. When we decide to allow refugees into this country. we should fund them. When we make other kinds of obligations in a discretionary fashion. we should fund them. but this is a constitutional obligation. We should not let appropriations decide whether or not the rights that are amplified and specified in this bill. coming from the 14th and 15th amendments. whether those rights will actually obtain. or not.