Joe Courtney actually said...

"Thank you, Mr. Secretary, for your testimony and your leadership over the last 6-1/2 years, 8-1/2 years."

"I think we are headed in the right direction, but you know, it is going to take time."

"Unfortunately, the BIA goes far beyond merely changing process--it also changes substantive law by radically rewriting criteria for recognition."

"Such a rewrite of the rules violate well established legal principles that protect the finality of judgments which all Americans have an interest in upholding."