Speaker. there is no reason this bill has to go through on suspension. Suspension is a technique designed to allow the House. as it says. to suspend the rules and pass something. and is usually used for a very noncontroversial item. It was my hope that this particular bill could either have been marked up in committee and protected people from the Internal Revenue Service. from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. from the Drug Enforcement Agency. from the Border Control. from the Immigration Service. a whole range of areas of legitimate enforcement concern that the gentleman from Virginia has been working on. none of which have been addressed in this bill correctly. or. In a worse case scenario. that the bill would come to the floor with a rule which would have allowed the House to look at some amendments in order to not have raw enforcement and Internal Revenue Service people in a mixed position where they might well be auditing you at lunch. and then visiting your house in the evening asking for your vote or asking for a political contribution. I think the bill in its current form is flawed.
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