[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 13082-13083]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             AMERICA NEEDS COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM

  (Mr. GARCIA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GARCIA. Madam Speaker, it has been 13 months, 13 months since the 
Senate passed a bipartisan, comprehensive bill, and yet, the Speaker 
has not let that bill come to the floor.
  So we filed a bipartisan bill with almost 200 cosponsors, and still 
the Speaker will not let that bill come to the floor. And why?
  Well, first they said that the Republicans were working on their own 
bill,

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so we waited and we waited for them to put it forward--and nothing.
  Then they said they needed more time, so we gave them more time, and 
the Republicans gave us nothing.
  Then, they said it was because the majority leader lost.
  And finally, finally, the fault of not having a comprehensive 
immigration bill is on the children, the children at the border. We are 
suddenly scared of children at the border.
  Madam Speaker, there is one person responsible for us not having 
comprehensive immigration reform, and it is the Speaker of this House.
  Mr. Speaker, give us a vote on comprehensive immigration reform.

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