Political Quotes

“I thank Senator Feinstein, the chairman of the Technology and Terrorism Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, for her leadership both in the holding of the hearing that she mentioned, as well as putting together the legislation we introduce this evening. Something happened on September 11 that, with one exception, really had not happened since the War of 1812 when British soldiers came into the United States and literally attacked Americans on our own soil. Except for the first attack on the World Trade Center, that did not happen again until September 11, when over 6,000 people were killed by foreigners who were here and attacked Americans in our country. At that point, we began to realize that we had to begin to close the loopholes in our immigration system that, frankly, were allowing just about anybody and everybody to come into this country and, as we have learned, to do some very bad things to Americans here in our own country. So this legislation would do a variety of things, as Senator Feinstein has said, beginning with the creation of a data base that would enable us to know what the FBI knows, what the CIA knows, what the INS knows, what the State Department knows.…”