Political Quotes

“I would simply mention to the distinguished leader before he leaves that a week ago, I came to the floor and talked about immigration and indicated that we would be willing to go forward--10 amendments on each side--and with the direction where I think we should go on conference. I hope the leader will understand that time is running out. We need to be able to do this. We are terribly concerned, even more concerned based on the statements from the House last week. Chairman Sensenbrenner gave a speech last week talking about why he had, in his bill, his legislation, at the request of the White House--I am sure the White House has backed off on this; I certainly hope so--but making people who are here who are undocumented, felons. He gave some illustrations that were not very good. He talked about, Japan doesn't have many immigrants that come illegally. That is right, that is because it is an island. They would have to swim there or come in on an airplane or boat. They don't have the mass migration problems we have. I hope the leader, with the many things he has to do, would understand that we have, after this week, only 2 weeks left in this legislative session. The leader stated we are going to try to finish this before Memorial Day. To do that, we are going to have to get on that bill. If we have all these amendments, it is going to take a lot of time.”