[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 16102-16103]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           IMMIGRATION REFORM

  (Ms. BONAMICI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, Congress must act without delay to provide 
certainty to employers, keep families together, and ensure that all 
children raised here in America have access to affordable higher 
education.
  Less than a decade ago, it might have been impossible to imagine that 
so many businesses, farmworkers, labor leaders, educators, and even 
politicians would come together to support comprehensive reform of our 
broken immigration system, a system that no

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longer reflects our values or national interests.
  The American public has reached consensus, as has the United States 
Senate. It is time for Members of the House to put aside their 
differences and pass a bill that grows the economy, creates a 
modernized immigration system, enhances our security, and creates an 
achievable path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
  I encourage the leadership to bring comprehensive, commonsense, and 
compassionate immigration reform legislation to the House floor this 
fall. Mr. Speaker, the time to act is now.

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