But one of the decisions that is made here by the majority leader is what kind of time is going to be allocated on what kinds of issues. Well. this majority leader. Senator REm. said 2 months ago he would set aside May. some time in May. for us to deal with the issue of immigration. He did the right thing. because what he did is he held peoples feet to the fire to deal with this issue that some people would rather not deal with at all. He said for us in the Senate. the 100 Members of this Chamber would be spending a significant amount of time in May and now into June dealing with this issue. But the amount of time we spent working on the issue of immigration goes far beyond the current effort we have on this bill. Last year. through the Judiciary Committee hearing that lasted for weeks prior to a markup and then for almost a month here on the floor of the Senate. we labored hard day and night to come up with a comprehensive immigration reform package. When all was said and done. some 35 votes were cast on that legislation. and there were over 60 votes in the Senate to move forward with comprehensive immigration reform. That was a month of struggle in this Chamber. trying to come up with a solution to deal with the very significant challenges we face with immigration. The group that has been working with Senator KENNEDY. Senator KYL.
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