Political Quotes

“First, I want to say it has been a privilege to work with the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Foley) on a completely nonpartisan basis for almost half a decade on this particular legislation. The Foley-Ackerman amendment closes the loophole that currently allows war criminals who enter the United States to remain in the United States. This measure enjoys bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate. A bill sponsored by the chairman and ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Orrin Hatch and Patrick Leahy, has been reported out of the Judiciary Committee in that body. At this very moment, with our Nation engaged in a conflict in Iraq, which previously had a regime that committed every kind of grotesque criminal behavior that our Nation deplores, the U.S. Code provides no, again, no, assurance that Saddam Hussein's henchmen, Iraqi war criminals, perpetrators of torture or atrocities from there or other places could not somehow come into the United States and enjoy the very benefits that they have so cruelly deprived of others.”