Lindsey Graham: “it is our hope that we will develop a second-degree amendment to this amendment which essentially would ask the Attorney…”

“it is our hope that we will develop a second-degree amendment to this amendment which essentially would ask the Attorney General to review this legislation that has been part of our statute since 1996, which the Senator from New Hampshire has stated has not been effective, and to give us his assessment as to the effectiveness of this legislation, if he believes that changes are needed. They might be changes in the law. They might be changes in the resources that are devoted to carrying out this law or for any other impediments. I note, as has the Senator from Vermont, that in the antiterrorism act which was just signed last Friday of October by President Bush, there are changes in the underlying definition of what constitutes an alien terrorist and an alien terrorist activity. Those changes have been stated to potentially have an effect on the efficacy of this 1996 act. That would be another subject on which we would ask the Attorney General's opinion. We are today taking up a very major change in our law without the kind of prudent, thoughtful consideration for which the Senate is established to provide.”