Jeff Lungren
Jeff Lungren
bill ensure integrity powerful private scrutiny strict treats
Because it treats one person differently, there's a special, strict scrutiny a private bill undergoes to ensure the integrity of the House, because it's such a powerful tool.
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It is 100 percent baseless and false. These provisions were requested by border-based U.S. attorneys to help crack down on human smugglers.
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It is a push by bankruptcy opponents to try and delay the implementation, more so than a good-faith effort to help Katrina victims.
bill intend
It is a bill we intend to consider.
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It's on the top of the agenda. We've got strong bipartisan support. We want to make sure the legislation is right, especially with constitutional issues.
bills moving
I don't see any of those bills moving this year,
five weeks
It's kind of like where we were five weeks ago.
advocate expect fairly house prospects
I would expect that the House will forcefully advocate for those provisions. I would say its prospects look fairly good.
certainly language open
If someone has better language to get at this problem, he's certainly open to it.
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The chairman requested their views because they are recognized as leading scholars in this area of law.
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You send exactly the wrong message. You essentially treat as suckers everyone that follows the law, that waits patiently outside of this country to come here legally.
agreed conference until
If we had a conference report, we would have filed it. Until everything is agreed upon, nothing is agreed upon.
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The goal of this law was to insure that all bill-paying Americans, including victims of Hurricane Katrina, don't have to pay the debts of others that can afford to pay.
doubt follow information members
There is a lot of new information in there, and members will no doubt want to follow up on it.