That is a pretty good little stimulus to help make sure the economic recovery continues. So that is something to have us keep in mind. The other immigration reform question a lot of people back home in Delaware asked me was. Immigration reform. isnt that going to cost us a lot? Isnt it going to make the budget deficit bigger? The Congressional Budget Office. which is neither Democratic nor Republican. has actually studied that. drilled down on that. and here is what they have concluded. The immigration reform. imperfect though it was. that we passed a year and a half ago with strong bipartisan support. would actually reduce our budget deficit over the next 10 years by $200 billion and further reduce our budget deficit over the next 10 years after that by $700 billion. Add those together. it is $900 billion in deficit reduction. We are at a time when. as our Presiding Officer knows. we still have all the deficits down by twothirds from where it was 5 or 6 years ago.
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