Cassidy Opposes Senate Immigration Bill

Statement

Today, Congressman Bill Cassidy, M.D. released the following statement on his opposition to the immigration bill the United States Senate passed today:

"The Senate legislation is over 1,000 pages, which reportedly not all the Senators have read, and there is no way the American people can be sure of what it does. As I talk to people in Louisiana, they tell me over and over again that we must secure our borders before we do anything else. They then recommend a step-by-step process so the effect of one policy change can be the basis for other policy changes. They are absolutely correct.

"That's why I'm leading a letter to Speaker John Boehner urging Congress to begin a thorough, step-by-step approach to our nation's immigration problem. Pushing massive bills quickly through Congress is what gave us Obamacare. Going step by step is the harder path, but it's also a more open and transparent process, and it's also what we are being asked to do by our constituents."

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