Political Quotes

“I want to respond to two issues first. Someone talked about safeguards. It says right in the bill, to have reasonable safeguards against the pilot program resulting in unlawful discriminatory practices based on national origin or citizenship status, including the selective or unauthorized use of this pilot program. Someone else said a national ID card. Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize, directly or indirectly, the issuance or use of national identification cards, or the establishment of a national identification card. Those are false, bogus arguments against this bill. Is Shays-Meehan perfect? We are being told it is perfect. I get mail every day that says it is not perfect. I get phone calls every day that say it is not perfect. This is only a pilot program. If it works, we expand it. If it does not work in 2001, we throw it away. Why are we afraid about stopping voter fraud? In my view, the two worst problems we face about elections are illegal foreign money and noncitizen voting, and Shays-Meehan does not do anything about either of them.”