Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I thank the distinguished ranking member and good friend for his comments. Just for the record, I would remind my good friend and colleague, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. McCotter) that there will no provisional authority when this bill becomes law. The fact that we vote on this tomorrow does nothing because this bill has to go through the process of working with the other body and being signed by the President. That cannot happen and will not happen until probably October or November of this year. By October or November of this year, there will be no more provisional authority; it will not exist. There will be an Iraqi Government. And that is what this amendment says; it says only if the Iraqi Government suggests and approves that this action be taken is our Defense Department encouraged to cooperate in that effort. I would say to my friend and colleague, in the institution he cited in Ireland, there was no U.S. involvement that I am aware of in committing atrocities at that Irish prison. And so perhaps that prison stands to the atrocities caused by those people in Ireland who committed them. In this case, as all Arabs know, there were in fact very serious incidents caused by Americans.”