Political Quotes

“in the last Congress legislation to combat human trafficking was a bipartisan matter. Senators Klobuchar and Leahy have long been leaders on this issue. But this year--and we could talk about how it got in the bill, many believe it was sleight of hand-- there is an abortion provision in this bill that is now before this body. For well more than 25 years I had the pleasure of serving with Henry Hyde in the House of Representatives, who was famous for a number of reasons, but one is that he has penned the Hyde language which deals with abortion. In all these 25-plus years, that matter has been put over 1 year at a time. We have never chosen to make that permanent law. This year Republicans have sought to inject into this consensus bill one of the most controversial issues of the last 40 years--a woman's right to choose. Don't take my word for it. Leading Republicans acknowledge that abortion politics is extraneous to the bill before us. Yesterday John Cornyn said: ``This bill is being hijacked and being used to debate something that it really doesn't have very much to do about, and that is the subject of abortion.'' Orrin Hatch said: ``I can't believe that this Senate has become so political that we would raise that issue at this time on this bill.'' The solution is so simple. Take the abortion language out of the bill. The bill dealing with human trafficking is going to pass. If we don't do it now, we will do it.…”