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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: I did, actually. I think we also have a graphic depiction of that. But really what this comes down to, Mr. Delahunt, is…

On the recordJuly 17, 2006
I did, actually. I think we also have a graphic depiction of that. But really what this comes down to, Mr. Delahunt, is a clear indication of who is for immigration enforcement and border security, and who is just kidding; who is in favor of putting action behind the words, and who just speaks the words. There is one more statistic that was more difficult to graphically depict, so I will go through this last one, which is also important, because the Bush administration has touted that in its first 5 years, it caught and returned 6 million undocumented individuals. That is actually a drop in any 5-year period under the Clinton administration. So, you know, this is all just a lot of puffery, a whole lot of chest-pounding, which they seem to be really, really good at. But when you scratch below the surface, just a little bit, there is no depth, there is nothing there. And, clearly, the former House Speaker, Mr. Gingrich, the warrior, arguably the architect of the so-called Republican revolution, he has had a few things to say, as we talked about our 30-something hours on this. As recently as July 14th, which was 4 days ago, this was him commenting on the broken system in Washington. He said, Congress really has to think about how fundamentally wrong the current system is.…
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