On the recordJune 9, 2016
Going back to my friend from Florida's case that we have hardworking men and women here who haven't had a pay raise in 9 years, if we are a part of a body that perpetuates racism and hate, I don't want a single one of us to get a penny. I don't want a single one of us to get a penny. My experience is that is not at all who we are. That is not who we are at all. My quick text search of the U.S. Code--and I am a lawyer, but I haven't read the Code cover to cover--tells me that ``illegal alien'' is referenced 32 times, even in a single title. Let's go change it. If you want to get rid of it, let's go in and get rid of it. Don't act like this is beyond our control and if only we can fix the Library of Congress, suddenly we can solve all that ails us. This is the United States Code. If you don't like the Code, change the Code. Tell me that we are ineffective and we can't get that done? We are talking about a title change here, one that we have already done, already this Congress. We eliminated the last reference to ``Oriental'' in the United States Code. We do these things together, but we don't do them by accusing one another of promoting racism and hate. We do those things by talking to one another.
