[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15454-15455]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     BRING UP THE IMMIGRATION BILL

  (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, one of the things that I have enjoyed in 
this House is sincerity. There's not a Member of this House that thinks 
the President of the United States is going to delay, repeal, or tear 
apart the Affordable Care Act; but if there's politics involved, I 
understand that. I'm a politician.
  It just seems to me that if you have a plan, a strategy, and the 
whole world is saying that a handful of people are destroying the 
credibility of the Republican Party and therefore taking down the 
Democrats and the Congress with them--even the President of the

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United States--then I think it's safe to say it's time to look for some 
credibility so that we can regain being a two-party system.
  So I didn't come here this morning to get arrested, but I did, 
because there are tens of thousands and millions of people that want to 
become Americans. They don't want to knock Republicans. They don't want 
to knock Democrats. They want to be Americans.
  Bring up the immigration bill. Let's vote these new, wonderful 
citizens in, and maybe they can bring some sense to the parties.

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