Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, and I very much thank the gentleman from Texas for illuminating the subject matter and especially the polling component of this. One would think that the Attorney General, as he was preparing to come before the Judiciary Committee-- and historically, the Attorney General has briefed himself for several days with people who will ask questions and, I will say, play out a role so that he can be tested, prepared, and ready to testify before Congress. One would believe that the Attorney General, that the first thing that he would be briefed on is Arizona immigration law. The Justice Department is investigating Arizona, and yet there seems to be not a realization of what's going on. He admits to the investigation. And to not have read the law and perhaps not read the summary---- Mr. Speaker, I need to put the little bit of this in the Record from memory of what I have read of the immigration law, which is actually most of it. That it mirrors Federal immigration law, and it makes it against the law to violate Federal immigration law, but it's the law that is set up--it's mirrored and written by the State of Arizona. And I thought I had a summary of it here. Should I be able to find that, I will speak to it factually, but otherwise from memory. But in any case, it allows for--if a law enforcement officer encounters someone in the normal practice of their doing their duties, they have to have probable cause to stop someone.…”