Session #114 · 2015–17

Speech #1140009980

Mr. President. I wish I could rise today to talk about the underlying legislation we are supposed to be talking about. which is a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. and also address the Presidents Executive order on immigration. which went around the Congress but also went around the American people. A judge in Texas agrees with those of us on this side of the aisle who look at this as an illegal act. Instead. the President ought to work with us. The President should work with the House and the Senate and the elected representatives of the American people to actually pass a law to help fix what is broken in our immigration system. We are not able to get on that legislation. and it is not because we have differences about the bill that we could talk about. We could have votes on amendments and debate this issue. but there are those on the other side of the aisle who have decided they dont even want us to have the opportunity to hash out those differences so we can vote.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT PORTMAN
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
OH
Gender
M
Date
2015-02-24
Speech ID
1140009980
Paragraph
#0
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