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Angie Craig: If the Senator will yield, she makes a tremendously important point. The original AgJOBS bill that brought the vote I…

On the recordSeptember 20, 2006
If the Senator will yield, she makes a tremendously important point. The original AgJOBS bill that brought the vote I just spoke to is not the bill before us now. The amendments that the Senator has brought and the amendment that I brought--because the Judiciary Committee itself changed some of it at the Senator's guidance and direction, and on the floor we added additional amendments--added the safeguards and protections and fines and the requirement of paying back taxes, to cause that illegal, who might become legal through this process, certain responsibilities that were not in the original bill.
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Angie Craig
Democratic · Minnesota

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Discussing changes to the AgJOBS bill during a Senate floor debate.

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