Political Quotes

“Today the Senate will resume consideration of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legislation. Senators Whitehouse, Cardin, and Feingold have said they will come and offer three amendments this afternoon. After finishing these, we will have about eight more amendments offered. They will all have time agreements, except Senator Feinstein's, but that is not a problem at all. They can probably work out the language on that, and it probably won't have to be debated. There is no reason we cannot finish this most important legislation tomorrow. We should vote on those three amendments tonight. I hope we can do that. Tomorrow, I would like to come in and have three of the most controversial amendments offered in the morning. One deals with the Dodd-Feingold amendment to strike retroactive immunity from the legislation--that part of the Intelligence Committee legislation; the amendment offered by Senator Cardin, who changed the--one amendment is to take away retroactive immunity. The other is to deal with the substitution, which is a Specter-Whitehouse amendment. Finally, there is one by Senator Feinstein, which deals with exclusivity of having the FISA Court, the one that handles the intelligence eavesdropping we do in this country.”