Chris Murphy: “I don't have notebooks; I just have loose scraps of paper. I haven't reached that level of organization of veteran…”

“I don't have notebooks; I just have loose scraps of paper. I haven't reached that level of organization of veteran Members like yourselves. Let me talk about one more myth. There is not a bill that comes before this House, and you and I, Mr. Altmire, are new here, so we are figuring this out as we go along. But there is not a bill that comes before this House that somebody on the other side doesn't scream ``illegal immigrants'' over. Right? That is just sort of the buzz word that accompanies every bill here. We had a Native American housing bill before this House a couple of weeks back, and somebody on the other side filed an amendment to make sure that no Native American housing benefits went to illegal immigrants. Now, I know that we run our programs pretty inefficiently in this country, but you have to really mismanage the Native American housing program in order to give some of the housing to illegal immigrants. So what they are saying on the other side is that this children's health care bill is going to go to illegal immigrants. Not true. Find me anywhere in that bill that allows for that. In fact, Mr. Altmire, it doesn't even allow for those health care benefits as part of the SCHIP program to go to legal immigrants, people who have their papers, did everything right, are waiting to become citizens of this country. They can't get the children's health care program under this bill.”