Mr. Chairman, I listened with great interest to the gentleman from Wisconsin and my good friend, the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde] and they have been complaining for months and even years that the habeas system is not working, that…

This is real streamlining. It takes care of these endless delays. It provides for counsel. It is a real reform. The gentleman from Illinois offers us nothing but more of the same delays, delay, delay.

Mr. Chairman, this is a repeat debate over an old issue. I certainly have not changed my position, but I do not think we ought to make it easier to implement a law that is very clearly wrong. The law established in 1977 by Coker against…

I have examined this and members of my subcommittee have examined the amendment offered by the gentleman from California [Mr. Rohrabacher], and it just invites racial discrimination. It is almost frightening what would happen to the…

Mr. Speaker, it occurred to me, listening to this very interesting debate, that we are making a national and international hero out of this scoundrel who has uttered these disgraceful, awful things. He will be the only person in world…