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Chip Pickering: “If I would have been present, I would have voted a resounding ``no'' against this amendment. The Nadler amendment would…”

On the recordFebruary 10, 2005
If I would have been present, I would have voted a resounding ``no'' against this amendment. The Nadler amendment would have stricken the provision in the REAL ID Act that tightens and improves our asylum system, which has been abused by terrorists with deadly consequences. The REAL ID Act will protect the American people by allowing immigration judges to determine witness credibility in asylum cases and ensuring that all terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility are also grounds for deportation. In summary, as a co-sponsor of this bill, I believe that all of the provisions in the REAL ID Act are essential in protecting our citizens from future terrorist plots and I would have voted ``no'' on the Nadler Amendment.
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Chip Pickering
Mississippi

Editor's note · Context

Addressing his absence during the vote on the Nadler amendment to the REAL ID Act of 2005.

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