Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, contrary to my good friend, the gentleman from New York, Chuck Schumer's comments, my judgment is this is a very fine bill. It is one that is long overdue as a supplement to the terrorism bill we passed in April. We must as a nation unite together to fight terrorism. It is one of the three or four major criminal and international concerns of this Nation as we move into the 21st century. There are going to be lots of debates over the specific provisions of how we go about doing this. Yes, I believe we ought to have multipoint wiretap sources for the FBI to be able to tap more telephones, to get at these terrorists. But there are a lot of other things we need and they are in this bill today. There are going to be more things down the road. We are going to have hearings on the wiretap in our Committee on the Judiciary in the next month when we come back. I believe we will produce much more substantive legislation in addition to this as we go through this process. Make no mistake, there is really good and important stuff in this bill. It should be enacted today.”