Madam Speaker. I rise today to announce the introduction of my bill. the Citizenship Promotion Act of 2007. The goal of the legislation is to minimize the obstacles that legal immigrants face on the road to becoming U.S. citizens. During my 15 years in Congress. I have made citizenship and immigration issues the comerstone of my work here. In my district. we have created innovative naturalization workshops that have become a national model for legislators around the nation. I am proud to say that these workshops have helped more than 40.000 Chicagoarea immigrants to become U.S. citizens. But there is much more to these workshops than numbers. There is something special. something amazing. about seeing the pride. the promise. and the confidence on a persons face after they have completed the citizenship application process.
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