Eva M. Clayton: “This bill is a well-crafted, balanced bill, and it is much needed in rural areas. But I cannot find the rationale for…”

Madam Speaker, I want to thank the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Millender-McDonald) for yielding to me. Madam Speaker, I would like to applaud the fact that the gentlewoman had the initiative, the gentlewoman took the initiative to…

What we have seen, indeed we have no other choice, they say, other than to raid Social Security, and indeed we had a choice. We had a choice. We could have paid down the debt. Paying down the public debt would have allowed to us to protect…

I was about to ask the gentleman if he is suggesting that he would be willing to restate it, all the legal immigrants, plus your provision, if they had some standard? Is that a 5-year standard, a 4-year standard?

We have engaged in this conversation before, but we wanted to make sure that as we address all issues we paid special attention to rural America. Each of a State's governors have to submit a plan to the Secretary stating how they are going…