Speech #1090157841

Mr. President. this amendment will fund the investigative agents we authorized in the immigration bill that passed this Congress. It would do so by increasing the funding for $85 million and would fully fund the 800 positions we authorized. We authorized 800 positions. but. unfortunately. we have only funded 141. Once again. it raises serious questions. as in 1986. about whether or not we are going to talk but not be willing to put up the money to fund the bill. Also. this will be offset by reductions in any discretionary account without mandating acrosstheboard cuts. The amendment has been amended from that previously filed so that no specific Allen Brownback Bunning Burns Burr Carper Chambliss Coburn Craig Crapo Akaka Alexander Allard Baucus Bayh Bennett BIden Bingaman Bond Boxer Byrd Cantwell Chafee Clinton Cochran Coleman Collins Conrad Cornyn Dayton Dodd Domenici Dorgan Durbin account is required to be cut. such as the Coast Guard.