Political Quotes

“I would rather not at this point. There are a number of sections in this bill. My dear friend Senator Udall says ``these sections'' as though there are a whole bunch of sections that are at issue. There is really only one section that is at issue here, and that is section 1032, and that is the so-called mandatory detention section which has a waiver in it. Section 1031 was written and approved by the administration. Section 1031, which my friend from Illinois has just said is an abomination, was written and approved by the administration. Now, section 1031 is the authority section. This authorizes. It doesn't mandate anything with the waiver; section 1032 does. Section 1031--and now I am going to use the words in the administration's own so-called SAP, or Statement of Administration Policy. This is what the administration says about section 1031: The authorities codified in this section already exist. So they don't think it is necessary--1031--but they don't object to it. Those are their words--the authorities in 1031 already exist. They do. What this does is incorporate already existing authorities from section 1031--unnecessary in the view of the administration, yes, but they helped write it and they approved it. We made changes in it. We have made so many changes in this language to satisfy the administration, I think it all comes down to one section: 1032. Section 1032 is the issue, not all of the sections, by the way, that would be stricken by the Udall amendment.…”