Yesterday. after we removed it from the bill. we surprised the administration by bringing the bill to the floor as a freestanding bill and let the democratic process take place on the floor of this House. full and open debate. With the President whipping all of his Democrat Members. and with all of the abuse and lies that have come through the media in the past 5 months about the Gallegly bill. after the debate. we had a vote. It passed overwhelmingly. a bill the President called nutty. that he was holding the immigration bill hostage with. It passed by a margin of 254 of 175 on this floor. with 41 Democrats supporting the bill he referred to as nutty before. His excuse today was the excuse he was going to use to try to kill the immigration bill. The facts remains. the objective here is to kill meaningful immigration and tell the people of California. "You be damned." I would only make one last comment. I wish that the polls in California were much closer. at 4 or 5 percent. not just because it is obvious to all my friends that I do support Bob Dole. but not for that reason. for the reason. if it was four or five points behind. we would have a President that was on Air Force One headed for California as we speak tonight. headed for the San Diego border. telephoning the Senate to get this bill out so he could sign it on the border. with the troops there standing off any illegal aliens coming into California. Unfortunately. that is not the case.
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