Working on this comprehensive immigration reform, accountable immigration reform, is going to, I think, be a lasting legacy for you if we get this done.

I liked your words, Mr. Case, how you see this as an opportunity, that this is not a problem.

The bill actually contains an increase in the visa fee... that will go directly to STEM education and training in our country.

you are not simply an amnesty seeker, as some people here might characterize it, but you are a taxpayer.

If you want to elaborate at all on the need for U visas for victims of domestic violence?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing.

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Mr. President, I wish to first thank the Senator from New Mexico for his great leadership on this issue. This is a national issue. It is a bipartisan issue. It crosses geographic lines. Those of us who have significant tribal communities…

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I was proud of the work that we did as a committee to pass a bipartisan bill out of this committee last Congress.

I think it's really important that--and I know that almost all of the States that have flexibility, have waivers, are using a growth model in some way.

This is a much broader issue.

I think this gives us an opportunity, Mr. Chairman, to take this to a broader level about what is CDC's role, what are those standards.

I think it is important. But this is a tough one with medicine.

the government, a government entity should always set the standard in terms of workplace safety, workplace protocols that are in place.

some of the accusations that were made here, I am going to put in for the record, Mr. Chairman, that I think these witnesses should have been sworn in, or still should be.

I am just curious, as we as a Nation have these conversations, I am guessing and I am seeing this, this monitoring and this remediation is a very expensive process.

I agree that no veteran should go there, or no patient should go to a U.S. hospital.