John Conyers: “let us look at the nature of the people that we have castigated for months and months that commit these heinous…”

“let us look at the nature of the people that we have castigated for months and months that commit these heinous offenses. Suicide bombers, are they looking for which habeas we are using and whether it exists, since, as we have just learned now, habeas has nothing to do with whether the death penalty exists? Habeas is the protections--constitutional--that are given to you if you are under the death penalty. I do not think so. Members of the other side, I do not think that suicide bombers care what we do with habeas or what we do not do with it. But why let them raise funds in the United States? That is in my bill. We prevent them from raising funds to get the bombs to blow up Americans. Please, we have a very serious, important matter that requires us to bring our common sense and leave our political partisanship outside the door. This is an incredibly important matter. I hope that all of us will recognize that we only have one measure that deals with antiterrorism, and it is the substitute which we will shortly vote on. I urge your favorable consideration of this provision.”