Session #114 · 2015–17

Speech #1140090366

In 1996 he was one of only three Senators from his party to vote against amending the U.S. Constitution to criminalize flagburning. He said that he thought flagburning was reprehensibleas we all dobut that it occurred far too infrequently to warrant changing the Constitution. That amendment failed in the Senate by one vote. When the Senate passed comprehensive immigration reform in 2006. Senator Bob Bennett of Utah was one of the many Members of his party to stand up and support it. Four years later. when the Senate voted on the DREAM Acta key part of that earlier bill and one that I introduced 15 years agothe political winds on the right had shifted dramatically.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
RICHARD DURBIN
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
IL
Gender
M
Date
2016-05-10
Speech ID
1140090366
Paragraph
#0
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