Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Judiciary Committee has a couple of subcommittees of jurisdiction. Senator Kennedy and Senator Brownback are the chairman and ranking member of the Immigration Subcommittee, and I have the honor of serving on that committee, as does Senator Feinstein. She chairs and I am ranking member of the Terrorism Subcommittee. So we have had the ability in both of these subcommittees to hold hearings and to discover after September 11 areas in which we can improve our immigration laws to make it much more difficult for terrorists to enter this country or to stay here illegally. This legislation is designed to close as many of those so-called loopholes as we can. I think it is a good effort in that regard. Each of the amendments that will be offered by Senator Byrd, in one way or another, strengthens the bill we have already offered. I wanted to make two quick comments. Eighteen of the terrorists who entered the country and flew airplanes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and into the ground in Pennsylvania came in using B-1, B-2 tourist visas.”