Mr. Delahunt, I just wanted to say really quickly that it is important that we point out, you have got one, two, three, and I am four Members of Congress. We have friends on the majority side of the aisle. We see them every day. We have lunch together, and we go to the dining room here in the Capitol. We know one another's families. We travel together to foreign countries. We visit military bases here in the United States and abroad. Madam Speaker, this is not personal. This is business. And the bottom line is that this Congress is making history in all the wrong ways. We have a rubber-stamp Congress, as Ms. Wasserman Schultz pointed out earlier, that has rubber-stamped everything that the administration has put forth to this Congress, and now we are in a situation where the American people do not see the same vision that the Republican majority has. Now, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, before we leave here tonight, you must talk about immigration. {time} 2210 You must talk about immigration in a way that shows that the Republican majority and the Bush White House is not leveling with the American people. Mr. Delahunt, you pointed out, Mr. Ryan was mentioning 750 earlier. I am looking here at our plan, it says 725. He was in the middle of a speech, and I wanted to make sure that we were accurate for the record. I wanted to make sure we were leveling with the American people.…
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