Harry Truman said it’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Once again, I have signed onto legislation authored by Heath Shuler, a North Carolina Democrat. I’m not interested in who gets credit for helping stop illegal immigration, I just want it stopped.
When you are building a house, you have to do things in a certain order. You could not, for instance, put the roof on before you have the walls up. In the same way, no plan for immigration reform will work until we control the border.
On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution stating: "Resolved, That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation."
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. It’s a lesson that history teachers like to drill into their students. However, in Congress, bad ideas are rarely subjected to a historical review.
Last month, the Supreme Court heard testimony on whether or not the President’s new healthcare bill is constitutional.