[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17997]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     RECOGNIZING FAST FOR FAMILIES

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, today I visited Fast for Families, a 
group of advocates who 21 days ago vowed to abstain from food to bring 
awareness to the need for a bipartisan remedy for our broken 
immigration system.
  Support for the fasters is growing with groups joining across the 
country in solidarity. Like many others in the U.S., they want to find 
a solution for the immigrant families living in this great country that 
they call home. We can all agree that it is time to modernize our 
immigration laws. Fixing what is broken will not be an easy task, but 
it will bring benefits to our Nation, which can be strengthened and 
reinvigorated by those hardworking individuals.
  I encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to reach out to 
one another, begin a conversation, and resolve this issue. We can work 
together to secure our borders and honor the rule of law while 
addressing the problems in our immigration system with solutions that 
reflect our American principles.


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Massie). The Chair will remind all 
persons in the gallery that they are here as guests of the House and 
that any manifestation of approval or disapproval of proceedings is in 
violation of the rules of the House.

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