Political Quotes

“Before I speak on the main subject for which I came to the floor, I want to compliment the Senator from Texas for both of the points he has made about the renaming of the street by the Chinese Embassy and also for what he has done in regard to Kate's Law today. Maybe something good has come out of his presentation on the floor, even though he wasn't able to proceed, in that if there is a real desire in the Judiciary Committee, which I chair, for a bipartisan approach to getting mandatory sentences for criminal felons who have been deported and have come back into the country, so that we don't have 121 people murdered in the future, as we have had in the last 5 years--because of mandatory sentencing under Kate's Law--I would be glad to pursue that. The reason this bill didn't go through the committee in the first place is that we felt there would be every effort to stop it from getting out of committee. Inspector General Empowerment Act Before I go to my full prepared remarks, I want to tell my colleagues why we ought to pass the legislation I am going to refer to. I will summarize by saying that the 1978 inspectors general law says that an inspector general is entitled to all material he needs in each agency to do the work that he has to do. Well, about 3 months ago, probably at the behest of the FBI, a single person in the Justice Department, in the Office of Legal Counsel, issued an opinion that said ``all'' doesn't mean all.…”