The majority party in the other body is also the Republican Party. This process that we are engaged in today is a sham. It is meant to mislead people that something is actually being done about immigration before we go home for the elections in November. before we recess for those elections. when. in fact. nothing really is being accomplished. In our peoples House on the 16th of December last year. the Border Protection Antiterrorism and Illegal Immigration Act passed by 239182. a margin much larger than is the margin by which the majority party holds the majority. So it was a bipartisan bill in part. In the other body on the 25th day of May of this year. 4 months ago. their Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act was passed by a vote of 6236. again by a margin much larger than the margin by which their majority party. also the Republican Party. passed the bill. It is again a comprehensive and bipartisan bill. So this process where we have legislation where two of the bills are in large part within the legislation that is being put forward today. and also is part of the bill that passed back in December by this body. by this peoples body. and the other one has been passed in a different form by the other body. all one has to do is go to conference. It would be possible to go to conference and work out the differences between those two pieces of legislation so a single bill could go to the President and be signed and provide what everyone in America. everyone in this body and everyone in the other body would call comprehensive immigration reform. That is the way that this ought to be done. The process that we are involved in today is a sham. and we should defeat the previous question and defeat the rule and go to comprehensive immigration reform by going to conference and doing it the way it has to be done in order to have a law be passed in this country.
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