Monday, November 8th - Committee Meeting

This session of congress was designated entirely to meeting with committees. As I am a part of the Foreign Affairs committee, I met with the other members of the predominately Democratic committee. I as well as my fellow senators began to discuss the terms of a potential bill to create an easier, smoother process for illegal immigrants to become American citizens. It was clear that there is a need to create a path for these people to become citizens, since the current process is lengthy, costly, and not available to everyone in the United States. We hammered out the new guidelines we would like to see in our bill, claiming that the citizenship process should be cheaper, easier to access, and shorter in time required to complete it. With a clear understanding of our bill and what we will have within it upon completion, we concluded the session with the intention to finish the bill on our own time.