[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6370]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              SENATE IMMIGRATION BILL COSTS $6.3 TRILLION

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Madam Speaker, a new study by The Heritage 
Foundation warns that the Senate immigration bill would cost $6.3 
trillion. That's because over their lifetime, illegal immigrants given 
amnesty would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits while paying 
only $3.1 trillion in taxes. Government benefits include Social 
Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and health care. That means 
each taxpayer would be forced to pay $40,000 just to cover some of the 
costs of the immigration bill.
  The immigration bill costs too much, has no deadline to secure the 
border, and hurts American workers. We should put the interests of 
American taxpayers and American workers first.

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