[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 6484-6485]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                         HON. STEPHEN F. LYNCH

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                         Wednesday, May 9, 2012

  Mr. LYNCH. Mr. Speaker, during Floor consideration of H.R. 5326 on 
May 8, 2012, I mistakenly recorded my vote on rollcall 220 as ``yea'' 
on the question on agreeing to the amendment offered by Ms. Black of 
Tennessee.
  I intended to vote ``no'', on the Black amendment, which sought to 
prohibit the Attorney General of the United States from using any funds 
appropriated by H.R. 5326 for the purpose of originating or joining in 
any lawsuit which seeks to overturn, enjoin, or invalidate a series of 
specified statutes related to immigration. Again, I would like 
reiterate my strong opposition to the Black amendment and express

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my significant concern that its language of limitation would unduly 
abrogate the longstanding prosecutorial discretion of the Department of 
Justice as well as undermine and violate the basic principle of 
separation of powers embodied by our Constitution.

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