José E. Serrano: “I guess the best way to start this discussion this time, as I look at the gentleman from California, is to quote a…”

“I guess the best way to start this discussion this time, as I look at the gentleman from California, is to quote a Member of his party some years ago and simply say: 'Here you go again.' Madam Chairman, I have no understanding why the gentleman from California continues to believe that this kind of an amendment can have any real effect on the issue that he wishes to address, an issue of whether or not we have an immigration problem or an immigration situation in the country. If, in fact, it is a problem for some of us, the time to deal with that is not when a child enters school. As the gentleman from California on our side clearly stated, Madam Chairman, this amendment is no different than the gentleman's original amendment because that amendment stated that we had to count everyone. It said: For this amendment to be carried out you have to count everyone, and, if you make a mistake in counting, a district runs the risk under this amendment of losing its funding. Now we are not talking about funding only for undocumented children, Madam Chairman. We are talking about funding for all children.”