Chairman SPECTER and Ranking Member LEAHY. we will be able to pass a bipartisan comprehensive plan before Memorial Day. I. also. thank Senators HAGEL and MARTINEZ for their determined efforts to bring consensus to the issue at hand. Under their leadership. we have developed. building on the work of othersnamely. Senator MCCAiN and Senator KENNEDYa fair. workable plan to help deal with each of the four components of the comprehensive immigration proposal. but most specifically to address the 12 million people who currently live in the United States illegally. The overall approach deals with the diversity of this population. We know that 40 percent of these 12 million people have been here longer than 10 years.
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