Political Quotes

“last night, as I was preparing to leave my office, I learned, with surprise, that Senator Leahy had made significant modifications to the pending Judiciary Committee substitute. Our study during the night of these modifications revealed that the partisan, Democratic-only Judiciary Committee substitute remains deeply flawed. While some aspects of the modified substitute have been cleaned up-- and, in fact, appear to borrow language that Senator Rockefeller and I have been negotiating over the past several months as part of our perfecting managers' amendment--the substitute contains many problematic provisions that I cannot support. In contrast to the underlying Intelligence Committee bill, I doubt that the problematic provisions in the modified substitute were vetted with the Republican Judiciary Committee members, the intelligence community, or the Department of Justice. It should be no surprise, then, that the DNI and the Department of Justice continue to oppose the modified substitute.”