Session #113 · 2013–15

Speech #1130123867

Certainly. the whole discussion here makes it very clear that American familiesAmerican familiesare being disrupted. separated day after day. No one wants to see that done to an American family. certainly not to a whole bunch of American citizens who want to have opportunities in the future. Our immigration system is broken. Lets just all agree on that. So what do we do? Well. we can fix the broken immigration system. or we can put message bills on the floor of the House that are never going to get signed and become law and leave in 5 more days and end the year 2014 without having done anything and watch as we have gone more than two to three decades without fixing a broken immigration system. Or we could finally take the bill that has been sitting here in the House for 525 days that passed in the Senate on a bipartisan vote. 68 out of 100 Senators. Republicans and Democrats. voted to fix the broken immigration system. That has been sitting here waiting for a vote for 525 days. We have 5 days left in this session. Within 5 days. we could fix the broken immigration system for our economy. for our families. and for our national security. or we could do a message bill as we have on the floor. which will not pass the Senate. which will not be signed by the President. which means that we leave 2014 having done nothing. The President said in January. during his State of the Union. "Congress. lets get this done together. but if you cant do something. then I will do what I can under my executive authority."
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Family values Economic contributor Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
XAVIER BECERRA
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
CA
Gender
M
Date
2014-12-04
Speech ID
1130123867
Paragraph
#1
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