Political Quotes

“I thank the chairman and the manager of this bill for his support of this particular amendment, which I hope is going to be noncontroversial. It has to do with clarifying some technical parts of the law dealing with adoptees and how they are able to claim citizenship. It does not have anything really to do with the larger pieces of this bill, but it is an opportunity to provide help and support to thousands of children, young people, and even adults who come to this country through the wonderful process of adoption, to clear up a couple of matters. I will talk about that in just a minute, but I want to associate myself with the extraordinarily powerful comments of the Senator from Arizona John McCain. Without his leadership and without his strong knowledge of the issue we are dealing with, I do not think the bill would be on the floor of the Senate, and I do not think we would have a chance to be voting on this important piece of legislation. He particularly--along with Senator Rubio and Senator Graham but particularly Senator McCain--has spent his adult life on the border in Arizona and has been in public office and has served this country so admirably in so many ways and fashions and understands this issue just about as well if not better than anyone on the floor. I have had the pleasure of working with him over many years to secure the border, as the chair of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee. I can attest that what he says is actually true and factual.…”