Mr. President. It was also how the Immigration Subcommittee itself addressed these issues. It did not start with one bill on legal and illegal immigration. It recognized the very delicate and very complicated nature of each of these separate areas of the law. First It passed a bill on illegal immigration. and then it passed a bill on legal immigration. Only then did it seek to combine the two. which the Judiciary Committee felt was a mistake. and separated the two later on. On the House side. Mr. President. we had the same thing take place. On the floor of the House of Representatives. a bill that included legal and illegal immigration reforms was tested. Overwhelmingly. the House of Representatives voted to strike those provisions such as the one or similar to the ones contained in the Simpson amendment which is before the Senate. provisions which dealt with legal immigration and dramatic changes to the process by which people who want to play by the rules come to this country and do so legally. In the Senate Judiciary Committee. we have kept legal and illegal immigration separate. In the House of Representatives. they have kept them separate. The bill. which Is sitting in the House side waiting to go to conference with us. does not have these legal immigration components that will be discussed today. For those reasons. Mr.
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