Saxby Chambliss: “I concur in about everything my friend from Alabama has said. Initially, he made a comment relative to debating…”

“I concur in about everything my friend from Alabama has said. Initially, he made a comment relative to debating immigration law on a Defense supplemental bill where we are trying to provide funds for our men and women who are serving so bravely overseas today. I concur in that. I had hoped we would have an expansive debate on this very sensitive and complicated issue. I know my friend, the Senator from Idaho, feels exactly as I do on this, but unfortunately we have been dictated to by the rules of the Senate relative to this issue. That is why we have both of these amendments up for discussion today. The Senator from Alabama is exactly right. He is also right on one other thing. There are two amendments we are debating, AgJOBS, filed by the Senator from Idaho and Senator Kennedy from Massachusetts, and the Chambliss-Kyl amendment. Both of these amendments recognize, as the Senator from Alabama said, we have a problem. We have a problem in the agriculture community relative to providing our farmers all across America a stable, secure, and lawful pool from which to choose for their labor needs. We can argue over how many hundreds of thousands or how many millions of individuals are illegally in this country today working on our farms. The Senator from Idaho said the Department of Labor says there will only be a few hundred thousand who will try to take advantage of this. I don't think that is right.…”