President. before I yield time. I do think that a number of comments that have Just been made both by the Senator from Massachusetts and the Senator from California deserve a quick response. because I do not believe that they accurately characterize the bill. It was ironic. in fact. that the Senator from Delaware came down here and excoriated us for approximately an hour and a half on the attitude this bill takes. s.ecifically citing one of the programs. which is prison construction. where we have created the possibility of States to obtain approximately $0.5 billion in prison construction for illegal aliens. This was not done to benefit my State. My State does not have a whole lot of illegal aliens running around. This was done to benefit the State of California. the State of Texas. the State of Florida. and It was done at the expense. as was pointed out most vividly by the Senator from Delaware. at the expense of some of the smaller States. of which I happen to be a representative. So I find a certain irony when the Senator from California comes down and attacks this bill on the basis that it is not doing enough.
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