Senate Proceeding on Jun 4th, 2007 :: 3:31:11 to 3:42:44
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Ken Salazar: our colleagues to come forward with other amendments that they may also have. and, mr. president, we are also ready to move forward in the scheduled votes on additional amendments beginning tomorrow

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Speech By: Ken Salazar
Bill: S. 1348: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007

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Ken Salazar: morning. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that on tuesday, june 5, when the senate resume consideration of s. 1348, the immigration legislation, that the time until 11:50 a.m. be for debate with respect

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Ken Salazar: to the allard amendment number 1189 and the durbin amendment number 1231, with the time to run concurrently on both amendments and divided as follows: 10 minutes each, the majority and republican managers

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Ken Salazar: or their designees, and senators allard and durbin. that no amendments be in order to either amendment prior to the vote, that the amendments be voted in the order listed here, and that upon disposition of

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Ken Salazar: the durbin amendment the senate stand in recess until 2:15 p.m. in order to accommodate the respective party conference work periods. that there be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to the

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Ken Salazar: second vote and that the second vote be ten minutes in duration with no further intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, it will be so so. mr. salazar:

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Ken Salazar: mr. president, i want to make a closing comment prior to adjourning the senate for the day, and that is as we begin our work on immigration reform legislation at this time after the work period for memorial

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Ken Salazar: day, we have a lot of work ahead of us in this week ahead. it is my hope that we'll be able to work together to get to a position where we will have a final vote here in the senate this week on

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Ken Salazar: immigration reform legislation. you will hear as this week continues, many personal stories about immigration, how the families of some members of the u.s. senate came into this country from different

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Ken Salazar: places. you will hear the stories which often tell us the richness of immigration which has made us a rich country. we'll share -- i'm sure we will hear the story of senator domenici and his parents

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Ken Salazar: and how his parents and his grandparents came to this country as immigrants, illegally at one point, and became part of the american dream. you'll hear lots of those dreams be told here as we deal

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Ken Salazar: with the issue of immigration reform. for me, the issue of immigration is an important one for a lot of different reasons. today it is a very important issue for us because of the national security issue

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Ken Salazar: which is at stake. unless we are able to fix our broken borders, mr. president, i don't think that any of us can say that we are truly advancing the ball of national security for our country. the

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Ken Salazar: presiding officer knows well that as attorney general, the members of the law enforcement community hold ourselves up with pride, to say that we are different from other countries around the world

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Ken Salazar: because we honor the fact that we are a nation of laws and we uphold those laws here in our country that's integral to making us the great democracy that we have here in our country. and so it is very

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Ken Salazar: important for us to move forward because we need to uphold those values that are so fundamental to our country, the value of national security, the value of upholding the nation -- a nation that is

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Ken Salazar: a nation of laws. those are fundamental values that we must uphold. for me, mr. president, the issue of immigration reform also has some history in my own family, because my family did not emigrate

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Ken Salazar: to this country as often thought about with respect to many of the immigrants that we have here in the united states or families that have come here in the last generation or last hundred years. my

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Ken Salazar: family settled the city of santa fe, new mexico, in 1598. that is some 409 years ago. it was a time when for the next 250 years following 1598, the part of the southwest which is now northern new mexico

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Ken Salazar: and southern colorado was either under the hands and sovereignty of the spanish government through 1821 and under the sovereignty of mexico from 1821 until 1848. so for 250 years my family farmed

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Ken Salazar: and ranched on the banks of the rio grande river in northern new mexico and then ultimately in the southern part of colorado, were very much a fabric of that landscape of the southwest, very much

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Ken Salazar: a fabric of those first nonnative american settlers who came in and found the great american dream to be a true dream here in the united states in later years. in 1848 the treaty between the united

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Ken Salazar: states and mexico was signed in which mexico ceded the northern part of its territory to the united states of america. at that time those generations that came before me and my family were given a

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Ken Salazar: choice, a choice to become american citizens under article 10 of the treaty 1 or in the alternative they could move some several hundred miles to the south to what had been a new border that had

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Ken Salazar: been created now several hundred miles along the rio grande river. about 400 miles to the south of santa fe, new mexico, some 500 miles to the south of where our current ranch resides. and at that time

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Ken Salazar: my family, like many families of today and those generations as well, made the decision that they would stay, that they would stay because they knew that that land was their land, that those communities

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Ken Salazar: were their communities, that those landscapes were their landscapes and that they would make it their home. and so for the generations in southern colorado and northern new mexico since 1848 until today

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Ken Salazar: they have continued to contribute greatly to the american dream in many, many different ways. in my own case, many members of my family have served in the united states military and have contributed

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Ken Salazar: greatly to the american dream. my own mother and father came here to washington in the early years of world war ii. my mother worked in the war department at the age of 19 coming from a village in

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Ken Salazar: northern new mexico and spending five years working in the war department, as part of that greatest generation that gave back so much to america to give us the kind of greatness that we have had for the last 60-plus

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Ken Salazar: years here in the united states. and my father became a soldier in the army. he retired as a staff sergeant after having served his time in the united states army. and there were other members

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Ken Salazar: of my family. my uncle, leondro, who is my mother's brother, two years older than my brother, gave his life in the soils of europe defending this country's efforts in world war ii as the united states

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