Posted on 04/11/2006 7:24:40 AM PDT by conservativecorner
Mr. President, I thank Senator Leahy, ranking member on the Judiciary Committee. I have received just this afternoon in my office some disturbing news in the form of correspondence from the Congressional Budget Office. It suggests a number of areas where the amendment we are talking about here today, No. 3424, the immigration so-called compromise, violates our budget and the rules of the Senate.
Let me read from the correspondence we have received. This is something, as you know, Mr. President, as a member of the Judiciary Committee, that we never discussed at all. It is not a matter we spent any time at all discussing as we moved forward with legislation which ultimately cleared that committee and came to the floor--legislation which I thought was not good legislation and which I opposed, and so did the Senator from Texas, who just relinquished the Chair. We didn't discuss the financial impact of the legislation before us.
One of the things our rules of the Senate require is that if a bill is on the floor that is in violation of a budget we have adopted, it is subject to a budget point of order. I am not going to make that budget point of order now because I am sure someone here would want to move to waive that budget point of order, but I am giving the heads up to those who are supporting this bill that it is a budget buster.
We have not yet begun to figure out how much this legislation will cost. I will be quoting from the Congressional Budget Office, which is the authoritative department to determine these matters. They have given us a preliminary report.
Let me read from the correspondence they have given and which I have just received.
(Excerpt) Read more at sessions.senate.gov ...
Sessions and his staff deserve some kind of award for the work they did last week. His floor speeches were devastating. His legislative assistant for immigration policy was apparently the ONLY person in the entire Capitol who read the entire "compromise" bill before they tried to bring it up for a vote, and she figured out that it wasn't so much a compromise as a capitulation. If you would like your hair to stand on end, read the text of the "compromise" legislation. It is fully as hideous as the bill voted out of the Judiciary Committee.
I met Sen. Jeff Sessions not so long ago in D.C. and I must say that I'd much rather he be my Senator than Sam Brownback!!!
Well, yeah, seeing as how Brownback is in bed and rolled up in the covers with Kennedy, Leahy, Specter and rest of the Quisling Party on immigration policy.
Absolutely! They dissected 325 pages of legalese and exposed the incredible number of flaws and loopholes in the bill. Kudos to Sen. Sessions and his fine staff.
p.s. I'm proud to call him my Senator!
We are very thankful he is one of our Senators. I also read Senator Shelby's statement regarding the immigration issue and he was critical of the President's plan, as well.
Now that I know his true sentiments - "why don't you and you, pay for the poor that I feel so sorry for" I only want him out of office and back in Topeka where he won't cost me so much money in extra tax dollars.
I might also add, that since he climbed in bed with Sen. Santorum, they have been quite a pair of bookends to the likes of Kennedy, et al.
FMI, can you give a link to it?
I just may very well move to AL.
No, I am sorry Senator Sessions must be punished by placing him in the minority party of the Senate. We must desert him and others who are fighting with him in the name of "getting even" (read tantruming) with those in the Republican Party that do not have his courage and forsight. /sarcasm
Disregard my previous post. Thanks!
EEwwwwww. What a mental image you created!
You'd be welcome!
It was a pretty good read. Too bad 99% of the senate was either in the bathroom or standing in little groups chatting about sports scores instead of listening to what he had to say.
Oh yeah, and think you'll see any of this reported like the original release of the bill was? Hell no.
The High Cost of Cheap Labor - Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget
The better half and I have been saving to send our daughter to college since she was born, for years and years.
Next, we'll learn that the American taxpayers will be expected to pay for the higher education of illegal aliens `anchor-babies'.
"`Snake-eyes', we already do that."
D'oh!
bttt
People of Kansas won't take kindly to Brownback.
I won't say he's finished as a senator, but he's finished
as a presidential candidate.
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