king and mr. gomer and mr. mulvaney need to prevent the unlawful distribution of unconstitutionally granted work permits. why? because the common man in this country and the common woman in this country, the american worker, will be the ones who are hurt by this granting of 5 million+ work permits. i want to thank you for doing what you are doing tonight. the president's actions were not a surprise to anyone in this room. we have no known for months that the president planned to audaciously take action to authorize these 5 million work permits without the legal process. again, i urge this committee to take under advisement the issue of timing. iftever this committee does, the committee chooses to go forward and wait until january for a vote, i urge this committee to make sure that they also pull in the illegal work permits that will be granted by this administration before we are able to get around to preventing that action. i thank you for your attention. >>. thank you very much. mr. king? >>. thank you, mr. c

. >> i would like to let you know that perhaps mr. gomer intended to join us. he has come in here.e gentleman would wish to be a part of that, the gentleman -- >> actually, i have an amendment of my own. >> i thank the gentleman. thank you for each of your testimony and you taking time to be with us today. i will say back to the group, not saying anybody said it, but at no point did i say if you do i will. you may do what you choose. i've told you what i'm going to do. so it was always a straight up deal. mr. salmon's acknowledging that. this is true. i would like to just without asking you questions -- i don't think that's what i'mp;kf tryi accomplish. i would like for you to remember that the american people did elect nine new senators and a bunch of new house republicans. they take office january 5th. that's the process. january 6th. i may be early. i'm so fired up about this. i will get here a day before, and i thank the gentleman for reminding me. i'm fired up about that. but that's the process. whether we like it or not. we knew before the election it would be sometime in ja