Chuck Schumer said "Mr. Chairman, just summing up to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle what the gentleman from Florida, Mr. McCollum's answer to the question would mean: It would indeed mean that there could in case after case be a sort of rush, petitioners' attorneys rushing to get a judge to authorize a stay and the State, in many cases, rushing to execute the defendants. That kind of result, those of us who are for the death penalty, those who are against the death penalty, that is not the kind of result we would want. And there are better ways to cure the endless appeals that have gone on than this. I think this amendment deserves to be defeated in a bipartisan way. It just besmirches some of the food efforts the gentleman from Florida [Mr. McCollum] is trying to do." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordFebruary 8, 1995

Mr. Chairman, just summing up to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle what the gentleman from Florida, Mr. McCollum's answer to the question would mean: It would indeed mean that there could in case after case be a sort of rush, petitioners' attorneys rushing to get a judge to authorize a stay and the State, in many cases, rushing to execute the defendants. That kind of result, those of us who are for the death penalty, those who are against the death penalty, that is not the kind of result we would want. And there are better ways to cure the endless appeals that have gone on than this. I think this amendment deserves to be defeated in a bipartisan way. It just besmirches some of the food efforts the gentleman from Florida [Mr. McCollum] is trying to do.

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Chuck Schumer

Democratic · New York

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Editor's note · Context

Debating an amendment related to the death penalty and its implications during a committee meeting.

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