We did it section by section of the legislation. with notification so members would have an idea which areas were going to be addressed each day. This was really in the best traditions of legislating. ..We moved forward. passed the bill but of the Judiciary Committee. and had extensive debate here on the floor oi the Senate. It took a number of days. I believe 7 or 8 days. Sometimes thle debate was tied up on the issues of minimum wage. By and large. the discussion focused on the issues of illegal immigration. Then we had the rollcall vote. As I mentioned earlier. rarely do we have a matter of this importance pass by a margin of 97 to 3 in the U.S.
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