[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 19100-19101]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 PASS COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM

  (Mr. SWALWELL of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

[[Page 19101]]


  Mr. SWALWELL of California. Mr. Speaker, earlier this evening, this 
Congress defied a rocky trajectory that has defined the past year of 
government shutdowns and starting with the fiscal cliff by passing a 2-
year compromise budget deal. I worked with you, Mr. Speaker, and others 
in our bipartisan United Solutions Caucus to support this bipartisan 
compromise, knowing that it is not the deal that ideally I would want. 
It doesn't do enough to restore Head Start funding or NIH funding, but 
it is a compromise and it is a step forward.
  Now I am asking my colleagues in this Chamber, let's build on this 
momentum. Today I am ending a 24-hour fast for comprehensive 
immigration reform. I will end it in about one hour. Let's come back in 
January and do the right thing for the people in our country who are 
living in the shadows, the undocumented immigrants; and let's finally 
pass comprehensive immigration reform and build on the momentum we 
showed we can do tonight.

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