The Washington Times
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said yesterday he will schedule a House vote for next week on a border security bill that also would limit illegal aliens' ability to obtain driver's licenses. But the Texas Republican said he doesn't want to spark a full debate on guest-worker programs and broad immigration reform.
President Bush, during last week's congressional Republican retreat in West Virginia, made another plea for Republicans to pass his guest-worker bill and Mr. DeLay said Congress will act on a broader immigration bill in the next two years.
But he said that must not distract from next week's focus.
"That bill that will be up next week is a border security bill. It is a homeland security bill," Mr. DeLay said.
"Immigration reform is a completely different subject which we will address in this Congress, and in fact we had an excellent debate on immigration reform and border security at the retreat," he said. "Our members know that we have to do something about immigration, but we also have to do something about border security."
Posted by Suzanne at February 2, 2005