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Cloture Motion

Floor Speech

Date: March 27, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Executive Branch Immigration

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Ms. COLLINS. Madam President, my bill would block the extraordinarily
broad immigration actions issued by the President in November of last
year. The President himself knows he lacks the authority to take such
actions--he has said so publicly on 22 occasions.

I support comprehensive immigration reform. But the President's 2014
Executive order overreach usurps the role of Congress, and undermines
our system of checks and balances. We must stand tall for the
separation of powers doctrine in our Constitution.

We can do so while protecting the much more limited June 2012
Executive order that created the so-called DACA program that benefits
DREAMers. Under my bill, the DACA program will continue just as it was
designed by the President in 2012.

Madam President, I yield back all time on this side.

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