NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “You know, the whole purpose of the amendment process is to offer perfecting amendments, and indeed, if we followed the…”

“You know, the whole purpose of the amendment process is to offer perfecting amendments, and indeed, if we followed the gentlewoman's logic, then we would allow noncitizens to vote. After all, should they not have a voice? Indeed, we have seen evidence of that in recent election campaigns, just as we saw in 1996, Bernard Schwartz, the leading contributor to the Democratic Party, and his Loral Missile Systems give the Communist Chinese guidance systems, and our Commander in Chief at that time did absolutely nothing. And that was an outrage. But we understand the pop psychology of the left: 'Oh, gee, it's just this horrible system. I didn't really mean it. It's just a horrible system.' Now, my friends, here is your chance to change the system, to say lawful citizens can contribute. No more financiers of Red Pagoda Communist Chinese cigarettes, no more daughters of the head of the Chinese equivalent of the CIA who showed up in the Oval Office, no more sham corporations, Chinese shell corporations operated by the Red Army of China doing their dirty work through soft money to a Clinton-Gore reelection campaign. If you are serious about reform, stand up for national security, stand up for this perfecting amendment, but I know the Orwellian phrase will be, somehow this is a poison pill.”