Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. The Senate-passed bill, in my understanding from recent discussion with the House Parliamentarian, has not arrived in the House. The reason it has not arrived in the House is because it has an origination problem. The Senate, in its haste to rush a bill through, didn't get it right. As a consequence, that bill cannot come in the House. We're here today to debate the rule for H.R. 2775. One of the things that I do feel obligated to point out--whether it's comprehensive immigration reform, whether it's any of the other things that people talk about--if you have an executive branch that only selectively enforces parts of laws that it wants to, why wouldn't the American people fear what might come out of the selective enforcement of a comprehensive immigration law? Let me quote to you from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Obama on March 21, 2010. This is section 1513, section (d). This is a section that deals with the employer mandate. Section (d): Effective date--The amendments made by this section shall apply to months beginning after December 31, 2013. That doesn't sound ambiguous.…
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