Political Quotes

“we have a major opportunity early in this Congress to enact vitally important legislation to protect our Nation against the scourge of international terrorism. On behalf of myself, the distinguished chairman of the Immigration Subcommittee, Senator Simpson, and Senators D'Amato, Cochran, Gregg, and Reid, I introduce the Alien Terrorist Removal Act of 1995. Mr. President, one of this Senator's greatest disappointments about last year's crime bill was that certain members of the conference committee from the House side insisted on stripping from it the Smith- Simpson alien terrorist removal amendment. Apparently at the instigation of a number of aliens' rights organizations, they killed a sorely needed antiterrorism measure that had been proposed by the Reagan Justice Department and actively promoted by the Bush Justice Department. In her letter to the conferees regarding the crime bill, in fact, Clinton administration Attorney General Janet Reno said that our amendment is both constitutional and addresses a problem that needs to be solved. FBI Director Louis Freeh has now made clear that he shares our disappointment.”