Political Quotes

“to me it is rather astonishing the extent to which we are discussing this historic immigration bill and how little our focus has been on the real impact of it, what immigration means, how to make it better, how to serve the national interests to do the kinds of things the American people want us to do. We really talked about a lot of hot-button issues, but we have not focused on the substance of what we are doing, how many people the country can absorb legally every year. We do 1 million legally every year. How many more can we assimilate effectively and have reasonable expectations that they would find good work in America, to be able to have them find work but not put Americans out of work, and what kinds of skill sets do we need most? Will our system of enforcement work? And there are many other questions like that. So I would say that to some degree we have missed that discussion. We are told that today--now we are going on 11 o'clock--we will see a magic amendment, the amendment that fixes everything, that we can just relax and go home and take a good nap because we have an amendment that is going to fix all of the problems in the legislation.…”