Political Quotes

“My biggest fear that it might not pass is that it makes sense. The bill makes adequate, perfect common sense. That has always been a drawback to final successful passage of legislation as we have noted over the years. Why does it make common sense? It simply makes certain that an individual who is a minor at the time that his or her parents filed for the adjustment of status and who then turns 21, under the current law, is thrown into a completely different category and could wait years for final adjudication of that particular status. What this bill does is treat the person who turns 21 as if he were or she were a minor at the time that the status was first filed. What I hope this is is a signal to all that our subcommittee and the full Committee on the Judiciary have been and will continue to be very sensitive to individual cases of injustice on a whole range of issues. These injustices were perpetrated in this particular set of circumstances inadvertently by the way that the original law was fashioned. What we do here today is adjust, through the use of common sense, a bad situation.”