Bob Corker: “I rise today to, first of all, thank our leadership for allowing a true debate to take place on this issue. I know at…”

“I rise today to, first of all, thank our leadership for allowing a true debate to take place on this issue. I know at one time it was discussed that we would pass this huge piece of legislation, that affects so many people, in 3 days. Because of the acquiescence of the bill managers and leadership, we are truly going to have 3 weeks of debate. You heard the Senator from Texas offer an amendment to make this legislation better; and the Senator from North Dakota, to offer his views. I think this whole process has been very healthy. One of the things we are trying to address in this bill is a situation where our immigration has been broken, the system has been broken for many years. In 1986, legislation was offered to try to solve this problem. What has happened is it has gotten even worse, so there has been, obviously, more thought put into this bill. I appreciate again the many amendments and the discussion that has taken place. Many of the things we have talked about have addressed the legalities, have addressed some of the technicalities in our immigration system. It seems to me, one of the things we have not addressed--while we have tried to address fairness to businesses, we tried to address fairness to immigrants, we tried to address fairness to families--one of the things I think we have not addressed is a sense of fairness to the American citizen.”