These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.

I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.

The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate.

We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.

These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.