Pete Sessions: “I do not see Senator Chambliss, but I would like to enter into a discussion. We will be voting tomorrow on the AgJOBS…”

“I do not see Senator Chambliss, but I would like to enter into a discussion. We will be voting tomorrow on the AgJOBS bill and the Kyl-Chambliss bill, and maybe other bills--the Mikulski bill and who knows what else--in the next few days as we are debating the emergency supplemental. These are amendments filed to the emergency supplemental, legislation to provide funding for our magnificent soldiers who are ably serving our country in harm's way to carry out a national policy that we sent them to carry out. We have been told that since the House of Representatives, when they passed their emergency supplemental, added several provisions to enhance our border security, recommendations that were in substance made by the 9/11 Commission to provide greater protection to our country against attacks by terrorists, such action by the House has opened the door to any immigration language and bill that we want to offer, that any Member may favor, to be added right onto a supplemental for our soldiers. There is a tremendous difference between those provisions, in my view. The Sensenbrenner language in the House bill is narrow, based on recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, related to our national defense and should have broad-based support. I hope it does. The President supports it. The AgJOBS bill, however, is controversial. It deals with a very large and complex subject that affects our economy and our legal system in a significant way.…”