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Engaged in Leadership Battle, Connie Mack Vows to Fight Illegal Immigration

November 7, 2010 - 6:00pm

As he continues his campaign against U.S. Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., to become the next chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, the fifth ranking member of the GOP leadership in the U.S. House, Sunshine State Republican Connie Mack, touched on immigration on Monday.

Mack has raised eyebrows for opposing an Arizona-style law on immigration in Florida, but he called for secure borders in a memo he sent to his Republican colleagues in Congress.

An important role of the Policy Committee chairman is to cultivate ideas within our conference and grow them into successful policies that will lead our nation, said Mack. While there are numerous issues facing our nation right now, there are five issues that merit our immediate attention in the next Congress, including border security. As Republican Policy Committee chairman, I pledge to my colleagues that I will work with them to pursue legislation that sticks to our core principles of less taxing, less spending, less government, and more freedom.

Mack insisted in the memo, Securing our borders, both north and south, is the responsibility of the federal government. We must remain vigilant, maintaining our ports and air transit systems with a fully-integrated homeland security system. As your Republican Policy Committee chairman, I will work with you to enact economically sound and prudent reforms aimed at stopping illegal immigration. We must cultivate a policy that secures our borders, promotes economic growth, and follows the rule of law.

As Mack continues to position himself for the leadership election, which is scheduled for Nov. 17, Price, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, has been aggressively raising his stature in recent days, blasting the Federal Reserve for releasing an extra $600 billion into the economy and weighing in on Octobers unemployment numbers.

Many of the factors keeping unemployment high stem directly from actions the current Congress has taken or failed to take over the last two years, said Price on Friday. Obamacare, the uncertainty about tax rates, trillion-dollar deficits, and out-of-control regulators at the EPA and elsewhere have all put families and job creators on the defensive. And just this week, the Federal Reserve confirmed its plan to create more uncertainty about the value of our currency by printing another $600 billion. The No. 1 focus for policymakers next year has to be removing these barriers to job creation.

The Republican House majority elected by the voters last Tuesday believes that our economy can best be aided by empowering Americans to make their own decisions, live their own lives, and create their own prosperity, added Price. At its heart, this approach is a fundamental rejection of the Washington knows best attitude that has prevailed over the last few years. It is time to get Washington out of the way, so the rest of the country can get back to work.


Reach Kevin Derby at kderby@sunshinestatenews.com or at (850) 727-0859.

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