PDF of the law signed on sept 30.
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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION REFORM AND IMMIGRANT RESPONSIBILITY ACT OF 1996—CONFERENCE REPORT (Senate - September 26, 1996)
[Page: S11450]Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate now turn to the consideration of the conference report accompanying the immigration bill, H.R. 2202.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The report will be stated.
The legislative clerk read as follows:
The committee on conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2202) to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve deterrence of illegal immigration to the United States by increasing border patrol and investigative personnel, by increasing penalties for alien smuggling and for document fraud, by reforming exclusion and deportation law and procedures, by improving the verification system for eligibility for employment, and through other measures, to reform the legal immigration system and facilitate legal entries into the United States, and for other purposes, having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses this report, signed by a majority of the conferees.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of the conference report.
(The conference report is printed in the House proceedings of the Record of September 24, 1996.)
Cloture Motion
[Page: S11451]Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I send a cloture motion to the desk.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
The legislative clerk read as follows:
Cloture Motion
We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate the conference report to accompany H.R. 2202, the illegal immigration reform bill.
Trent Lott, Richard Shelby, Jon Kyl, Craig Thomas, Bob Bennett, Slade Gorton, Mark O. Hatfield, Sheila Frahm, Orrin Hatch, Hank Brown, Dan Coats, Judd Gregg, Rod Grams, Frank H. Murkowski, Al Simpson, and Don Nickles.
Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the cloture vote occur on Monday, September 30, at a time to be determined by the majority leader, after consultation with the Democratic leader, and that the mandatory quorum under rule XXII be waived.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, in view of this agreement that has been worked out, I would like to announce there will be no further votes tonight. I know that there are a number of very important events occurring. I wanted to give that notice to the Senators as early as possible.
I have worked with Senator Daschle and Senator Kennedy to get an agreement to get this illegal immigration conference report considered. This will guarantee that we will get to a cloture vote on Monday, if necessary, and to final passage at a time after that, either Monday night or certainly not later than next Tuesday.
In the meantime, we continue to hope, and, I believe, maybe agreement can be reached to work out a compromise so that the illegal immigration legislation can be included in the continuing resolution which will be connected to the Department of Defense conference report.
There will be a meeting tonight, I think, at 9:30 of the Senators and Congressmen and administration officials who are interested in this area. We hope they can get it worked out and maybe it can be included in an agreed-to package tomorrow night just in case that doesn’t happen. Illegal immigration is such an important issue in this country and people expect us to act on it.
After the effort was made and agreement was reached to take out one provision that had been objected to by the President and others, we thought this legislation would move forward. It should. But there are some problems that are being expressed by the administration. We will work on those. If we don’t get it worked out, we will have a cloture vote on Monday.
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Ready for this? Now they want federal student loans for illegals (never to repay, of course):
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4875270.html
I guess we don’t really need those tax dollars, with our record high national debt (that doesn’t even figure in social security “obligations”)?
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt.htm