Life, liberty, the pursuit of
happiness, a well-thought-out, prioritized list in our Declaration that
gives us the inspiration that was the foundation for our Constitution
and the principles of our lives in America today. So I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for his explanation of
this and for giving me an opportunity to flesh this out a little bit in
the concepts of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But the segue that he has served up to me is this: that our debates
today here in this Congress on the immigration bills that have now just
passed the Congress have been focused on the right to life--the right
to life versus the criminals that took the liberty to take them. They
have violated the very foundations of our Declaration, and, of course,
they violated our laws in a number of ways. But I think, especially, of the onset of this discussion, and I think
of Sarah Root. And her legislation that is Sarah's Law was introduced
by me in this Congress. I have a copy of this bill today. We introduced
it last year also, but in this Congress, it became H.R. 174, and it
came about, and then we incorporated it into the broader bill today
that we call the sanctuary cities legislation, Mr. Speaker. Sarah Root had just graduated from Bellevue University in Omaha.
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