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In crafting immigration reform legislation, given the stakesinvolved, Congress should oppose and, if necessary, the President should veto any reforms or reform packages that do not comport withAmerica's core principles, are not in the best interests of theUnited States, and are inconsistent with the traditions andcompassionate practices of America's ongoing experiment in orderedliberty.
Background Some of the most pernicious and welfare-inimical anticompetitive activity stems from the efforts of firms to use governmental regulation to raise rivals’ costs or totally exclude them from the market (see, for example, here). The surest cure to such economic harm is, of course, the elimination or reform of anticompetitive government laws and regulations, but that is hard to do, given the existence of well-entrenched int
So important is the power to borrow money that it was one of the few real powers expressly delegated to the weak and ineffectual government created under the Articles of Confederation.
At the start of each new Congress, all Members beginning a new term of office (the entire House of Representative and one-third of the Senate) take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
The United States, more than any other nation in history, beckons to all those "yearning to breathe free." The objective is not "my country, right or wrong," but for the immigrant to come to regard this nation as my country: an enlightened patriotism based on an understanding of and commitment to America, what it stands for, and who we are as a people.