Word: rodino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Known as the Simpson-Rodino bill, the reform act was the culmination of a five-year effort in Congress to stanch the increasing flow of illegal immigration. Romano Mazzoli, the Kentucky Congressman who was a key sponsor of the original legislation in the House, sums up the sentiment behind it: "Any nation that doesn't have control over its borders is a nation whose central core might be threatened." The law is based on a carrot-stick principle: it offers legal status to long-term immigrants while mandating sanctions against employers who knowingly hire more recent arrivals. Illegal aliens...
...weeks ago, when all appeared lost, Brooklyn Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer made a final attempt to save the bill. He met with Simpson, Democratic Congressman Peter Rodino of New Jersey, who sponsored the House version, and Republican Congressman Dan Lungren of California. Together they produced a compromise called the "California provision," which extended the amnesty to illegal aliens who harvested perishable fruits and vegetables for 90 days or longer between May 1985 and May 1986. Says Schumer: "It would have been abhorrent to let the whole bill go down over this problem...
Last week the committee opened for testimony. Impatience is already running high. A nine-member House team of "managers," or prosecutors, in the case, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, asked that the Senate find Claiborne guilty on the spot, using just the evidence that he is a convicted felon. Committee Chairman Charles Mathias of Maryland rejected that proposal...
Another amendment would allow prosecutors to introduce into federal trials evidence that had been obtained illegally without a warrant as long as law- enforcement officials seized the material "in good faith." New Jersey Democrat Peter Rodino, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the amendment had not been considered in hearings by his panel. "All day long we've been fighting the war on drugs," said he. "Now it seems that the attack is on the Constitution of the United States...
...both to make its own decisions on spending. "It's a bad idea whose time has come," admitted New Hampshire Republican Senator Warren Rudman, one of the bill's co-authors (the others: Texas Republican Senator Phil Gramm and South Carolina Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings). New Jersey Democrat Peter Rodino, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, called it a "flagrant abdication of congressional responsibility." Last week the Supreme Court leveled the ultimate criticism, ruling that a key provision of GrammRudman is unconstitutional...