John Mica: “I did everything humanly possible to try to bring the House together on the best possible security plan, a comprehensive…”

“I did everything humanly possible to try to bring the House together on the best possible security plan, a comprehensive plan. If I thought for one minute that this substitute would do a better job, I would step forward and support it, because this is too important for partisan politics. It is too important to not have in place the very best protections. Unfortunately, what the substitute does is it creates a two-tier system. The Attorney General has said it will actually detract from their effort on the war on terrorism and opposes this responsibility being given in a bifurcated fashion to the Department of Justice.”