Joe Cunningham: “my colleague across the way said that it is not amnesty. It allows illegals to remain in this country. That is amnesty.…”

“my colleague across the way said that it is not amnesty. It allows illegals to remain in this country. That is amnesty. I do not care what semantics are, but it allows them to stay here and we are opposed to that. If you are here illegally, if you come into the United States illegally, we will legally deport you to whatever country of origin that you have, and that is our position. That is what we are sticking to. I would also say to the gentleman when he talks about extreme Republicans that cause the President to veto bills, we passed Medicare over to the President. It was vetoed. The DNC through the unions and the White House, thousands of negative ads on the Medicare, and the Government shut down. It is the same Medicare bill that was passed in the balanced budget, but there are still extremists on the other side that do not want the Medicare reform. The same was true with the welfare reform, vetoed, and Government shut down, but yet welfare reform untraps people and we passed that. I would also look at direct lending. The President wanted 100 percent of direct student loans in 1 year capped at 10 percent. It cost $7 billion annually more through the President's direct lending. But that was a pet program, so the Government shut down and the President said, ``We're not going to let the Government go until the extremists allow me to have 100 percent of the direct loans.'' There was a negotiation. Forty percent went forward.…”