Political Quotes

“Last, Mr. Chairman, the gentleman strikes the reasonable-cause-to-believe language in section 102 relating to knowingly providing material support to terrorist organizations, and section 204 relating to knowingly transferring a firearm to another, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe it will be used in a crime of violence or drug trafficking offense. The key here is knowingly or having reasonable cause to believe. Now, what the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Barr] objects to is reasonable cause to believe, thinking that is too amorphous a standard. I just submit that it is the law in all other places in the code. I suggest 18 USC section 922(f)1 and (i), for instance. So this is nothing new or strange. I just submit it will be unfortunate if the Barr amendment passes, because we eviscerate the bill. It still has some good in it, but it is a frail representation of what started out as a robust answer to the terrorist menace. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.”