Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, just a couple of notes. First, this bill does not add any additional visas to the visa system. There were efforts to do that, plans to recapture visas. That was never agreed to by the Senate, and so this is an allocation of existing visas. It doesn't add a single visa. As I said before, 95 percent of the individuals who would be impacted are already here legally in the United States. They are legally working in the United States. So it is no new people coming in, either. It is people who are already here, no additional visas. We asked the Congressional Research Service to do an analysis because people wanted to know--and they were right to want to know--is there any adverse impact on Africa or the Caribbean, and CRS told us there was no impact on Africa or the Caribbean. Referring to the EB-5 category, I think those who are concerned don't realize that we actually changed the EB-5 Act through the Integrity Act earlier this year, and due to those changes, 32 percent of the green cards available every year for investments go to a new category. It is completely current. There is no backlog. I just want to talk a little bit about what we are doing here. My colleague from California said we are talking about picking winners and losers. In 1965, the Congress did pick winners and losers when they designed this structure. The winners were Western Europe, and the losers were everyone else.…”