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On the recordDecember 8, 2010
I rise in strong opposition to this legislation. This bill has been around for a long time for good reason. It is a bad bill, having been around for a long time, for this entire Congress, for 2 years, no hearing in the Judiciary Committee, no hearing in the chairman's committee for the entire 2 years, and now here we are within a week of adjourning the Congress, still no hearing. No opportunity for people to come in and testify before the Congress about how this would work, how we will screen out the people who will commit fraud under this, how unfair it is to people who wait for years, who are legally going through the process of becoming immigrants. No opportunity in the committee to improve the bill. No opportunity to offer amendments. Why? Because no markup was held for 2 years.
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Bob Goodlatte
Republican · Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Dec 8, 2010

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Goodlatte opposes legislation due to lack of hearings and opportunities for input over two years.

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