I think to characterize it as amnesty would be rejected by many of us who support it, the idea of earning citizenship by paying back taxes, paying a penalty, learning English, goin...
None of them is absolute.
It is essentially dead letter.
My strong belief is that we ought to do everything possible to enable more effective prosecutions under existing laws.
I am very concerned, as my colleagues have said, about the effect on our defense industrial base.
Reasonable regulation are consistent and, in fact, the genius of our Constitution.
There is a tension between those constitutional rights.
And nobody has ever suggested that a criminal, a convicted felon or a fugitive or a drug addict or someone seriously men...
I think many of us on this Committee are aware, but maybe not most Americans, that you often know that a crime has been ...
I call on the NRA, Wayne LaPierre, to repudiate and reject it.
I am very regretful and disappointed that the decision has been made to abandon it after devoting a billion dollars.