John Conyers: “Mr. Speaker, the reason this is on the consent calendar is that the members of the Committee on the Judiciary, as well…”

“Mr. Speaker, the reason this is on the consent calendar is that the members of the Committee on the Judiciary, as well as the Members in the House, agree that we should take steps to make sure citizenship is granted to some 37,000 military people who happen to be noncitizens. And it is in that spirit that I rise to commend the ranking subcommittee chair, the gentlewoman from Houston, Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee), and the subcommittee chairman, the chairman of the full committee, and all of the members on the Committee on the Judiciary that worked on this. We are trying to still improve this measure as it goes to conference, and I would like to urge everyone to give it a rousing vote this afternoon.”