Nevertheless. I must protect the rights of my constituentsci ties and private property owners. We have to have the input from those local people. and the Border Patrol should be the ones deciding exactly where those fences are needed. not the Congress. most of whom have not ever visited Laredo. TX. I do hope we can defeat the Coburn amendment and go forward with the billwell. not go forward with the bill as it stands today but certainly with this part of the bill. I would like to use the remainder of my time to talk about cloture because I am most certainly strongly against cloture on the underlying bill that is before us. Not that there isnt some good in this bill. but this bill is not ready to be closed out. The good parts of the bill are the border security parts. Border security has specific benchmarks that must be met before the trigger is pulled for the guest worker program to go forward. That is a good part of this bill. I added an amendment at midnight last night that shores up the Social Security protection in this bill.
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