Patsy T. Mink: “Many workers today struggle to make a living wage. This credit provides these workers with a financial boost to help…”

This process is deplorable. It flies in the face of the Constitution.

To state that legal permanent residents should only be allowed to exercise their constitutional right of free speech when they become U.S. citizens displays a dangerous misunderstanding of constitutional law.

Today we are considering the conference report on the so-called Labor-HHS FY2000 appropriation measure, even though this measure has not even been voted on by the House.

Any class of citizens having to prove their citizenship in order to exercise their basic first amendment right is an insult to all U.S. citizens.