And lets be clear about what the problem is. There is a bipartisan bill that Democrats and Republicans agree on on funding the Department of Homeland Security. What some of the more extreme elements in the House of Representatives on the Republican side have done is they have loaded it up with all kinds of antiimmigration provisions. They have decided that that is where they want the debate on immigration. so all of a sudden. this bill has been loaded up with extraneous issues that dont belong on this bill. Quite frankly. we think that that is wrong. and Democrats in the Senate think it is wrong. What we are saying is actually bring before both bodies a clean bill. What is so wrong with that? If you dont like what the President is doing on immigration. bring up a separate bill or sue him again because that seems to be what my Republican friends like to do all the time. but dont hold up a Department of Homeland Security bill for a political battle on an issue. quite frankly. that does not belong on an appropriations bill. Mr. Speaker. again. there are only 16 days left until the funding of the Department of Homeland Security expires.
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