Political Quotes

“the modification I send to the desk is a modification of the amendment regarding female genital mutilation. The modified version of this amendment strikes the language requiring the threat of female genital mutilation be made consideration for an asylum claim. I repeat, at this time I believe in the asylum aspect of it, but I understand the problems associated with this; that we would need to make a better case to the committee and to this body. Therefore, I will not go into the reasons why I think it should be made a basis for asylum. The fact of the matter is, we are not going to do it in this legislation. We will look down the road to work with the committee to see if we can come up with a basis for doing that. I offer this modified version of my amendment today so we can criminalize this torture in the United States, as a number of other countries have already done.”