[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18404]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           IMMIGRATION REFORM

  (Mr. GRIJALVA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Speaker, as Members of the House reach their 
conclusions on the budget deal announced by Congressman Ryan and 
Senator Murray, I might add it is a deal devoid of any support for the 
unemployed, real investment in jobs and education, and tax reform that 
produces fairness, pushing additional cost burdens on Federal 
employees. But it does avoid cuts to Social Security and Medicare and 
the Republican-inspired government shutdown and near default.
  I want to remind my colleagues in the House that that same kind of 
effort, attention, and risk is needed on the issue of comprehensive 
immigration reform. If we can produce a budget deal through the crisis 
that we have been through, then it is time for the House of 
Representatives and the Republican leadership to step up and produce 
the same kind of effort, the same kind of attention to one of the most 
critical domestic issues affecting so many families and communities in 
this country, and that is the question of comprehensive immigration 
reform.
  If we have the fortitude, the risk to compromise on a budget, we 
should certainly be able to do that for immigration reform.

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