Political Quotes

“The amendment we offered was not State specific. We are requesting wherever there is yet an open file of an allegation of irregularity in the Department of Justice, the Department periodically report as to how they are progressing so that eventually there will be closure. We do not want to get to 2004 and still have open cases from the year 2000 election. The Senator's committee is the committee that has jurisdiction over these issues. Witness the fact you produced this excellent piece of legislation. So if your committee could accomplish what, frankly, Senator Nelson and I have been frustrated in our efforts to do for the last several months, which is to get a status report--I would hope you would be asking for all States, but we would particularly urge that you do it for our State--that would satisfy our goal, which is to get to closure, not to do so in a particular process, whether it is legislation or otherwise. The Senator has suggested a process that seems very reasonable. If you think you would be willing to do so, we will be pleased to accept the Senator's generous offer and leave.”