the gentleman from Florida finally addresses the point I was making, as opposed to a point I never made. What he is acknowledging, of course, is that this grandfathering, et cetera, that he is talking about, it is a substantial repeal of his bill. The bill he is so proud of did damage to the legal immigrants, and the budget agreement, and he is talking about it, is undoing some of what he did to the legal immigrants in the welfare bill.
Discussing the impact of a welfare bill on legal immigrants during a debate.
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We should have made it much higher, $125 billion or more, and we should have indexed it.
If you're going to dip your fingers in the Federal till, don't complain if a little democracy rubs off on them.
I was one of three Members of the House who voted against that. Three of us, Ron Paul, Dave Wu, and I voted to allow this bigot to continue to demonstrate his bigotry.
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