[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15199]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              IMMIGRATION

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, just a brief word about the immigration 
bill. We could have been wrapping it up tonight.
  As I indicated to my good friend, the majority leader, on Thursday 
afternoon, I thought there was every reason to believe we could have 
finished the immigration bill by tonight. Instead, we ended up having 
another cloture vote--in my view, a day or two premature--taking Friday 
off, and today spending our time on a meaningless resolution giving the 
President advice about whom the Attorney General ought to be.
  Having said that, I appreciate the comments of the majority leader 
that he would like to finish the immigration bill. There is a 
substantial number of Republican Senators who believe this bill would 
be an improvement over the current situation, over the status quo, and 
so I hope we will be able to chart a path to get us back on track at 
some point and hopefully complete, on a bipartisan basis, what could 
well be the most important domestic achievement of this Congress.
  I am pleased to hear the majority leader say there is a possibility 
that we could get back to this measure and wrap it up. That certainly 
is my hope, and I will look forward to working with him toward that 
end.
  I yield the floor.

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