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Henry Hyde: “In listening to the remarks of the distinguished gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy], now I am confused. I…”

On the recordApril 18, 1996
In listening to the remarks of the distinguished gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy], now I am confused. I remember they used to criticize a former President by ridicule, saying he could not walk and chew gum at the same time. It would seem to me that handling two ideas is not that difficult: habeas and antiterrorism, even if what he said is true, that they were not related; however, they are. If someone gets convicted of bombing a building and killing people, people who are the victims of that, and survivors, would like to be sure that the appeals cannot go on and on and on, as they do now. So bringing to closure and bringing the sentence that is imposed into reality does have something to do with bombing buildings, and that has something to do with terrorism.
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Henry Hyde
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Discussing the relationship between habeas corpus and antiterrorism legislation.

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