Political Quotes

“the manager's amendment that we are discussing now changes the short title of the bill to the ``Effective Death Penalty and Public Safety Act of 1996.'' It conforms the language in section 102, ``prohibiting material support to terrorists,'' to the language already used in section 204. In other words, it says, ``has reasonable cause to believe,'' instead of ``should have known.'' This amendment would codify current case law on actual and constructive knowledge of criminal activity. This amendment strikes both section 302 and section 303. Section 302 has to do with disclosure of certain consumer reports to the FBI, and section 303 has to do with disclosure of business records held by third parties in foreign counterintelligence cases. Both of those sections are stricken in their entirety. Next, the amendment amends section 803, having to do with jurisdiction for lawsuits against terrorist states, which in turn amends the existing Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. section 1602-1611. This section would allow lawsuits by U.S. citizens against terrorist states who are responsible for state-sponsored torture, extrajudicial killing, aircraft sabotage, hostage-taking, or the provision of material support or resources for such acts which result in death or personal injury.”