Arlen Specter: “I well understand that there will be no action on this matter during this Congress, but I want to put it into the public…”

“I well understand that there will be no action on this matter during this Congress, but I want to put it into the public milieu so there can be comment about it and it will be pursued in the next Congress. The Department of Justice has advised that they are going to revise the Thompson Memorandum to a memorandum called the McNulty Memorandum from the Deputy Attorney General. I had hoped we would have had it before the Senate went out of session so that we could have reviewed it and perhaps accepted their work, but it is not ready. I have advised Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty and also Attorney General Gonzales that this legislation would be introduced and we can work on it in the next Congress.”