[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 25446]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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       PRESIDENT HAS DEMANDED BLANKET AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman may or may not be correct 
in terms of what the issue is. The President always is pushing us to 
spend a little more on health care, a little


more on education. But the fact is what is the real issue that is 
keeping us here?
  The real issue is the President has demanded a blanket amnesty for 
millions of illegal aliens in our society. So all this money that he is 
talking about, a little more for education, a little more for health 
care, will be totally negated even if we give in to the President 
because we will be then adding millions of more people into eligibility 
for these same government programs.
  The President is keeping us here in order to pressure Congress to 
issue a blanket amnesty for millions of illegal aliens and then thus 
making them eligible for every government benefit that supposedly 
should be going to the American people.
  This is a noble cause for us to stand our ground here in Congress to 
protect the American people, not to let the President bring in millions 
of illegal aliens in order to consume the scarce resources available 
for them in health care, Social Security, and education.

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