ESPAILLAT. Mr. Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to thank
the Congressional Progressive Caucus for allowing and facilitating this
Special Order hour on DREAMers and DACA. On my previous intervention, I highlighted how we contemplated
tonight, as this House passed a continuing resolution to fund
government, and how for many months we contemplated three pieces of
legislation to address the issues of DACA recipients and DREAMers that
were drafted in a bipartisan way. As I mentioned earlier, the first one is the clean Dream Act. The
second one, put together by the Problem Solvers Caucus, is the USA Act. The other Chamber, which is convening right now as I speak to debate
whether or not the government should continue to be funded and to take
up the continuing resolution that we sent over to the other House, as
they debate that, they will realize that none of the three proposals
that I highlighted earlier--the Dream Act, the USA Act, and also the
immigration framework that came over from bipartisan Senators--is
included in that continuing resolution, leaving the DREAMers and DACA
recipients out in the cold, propelling me to once again vote against
the continuing resolution, as I did over 3 weeks ago. This particular issue impacts 800,000 DREAMers across the Nation, a
population bigger than any one of our congressional districts. Mr.
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