Political Quotes

“at this time I would like to, in conjunction with my colleague Senator Levin, lay down this amendment, give a brief explanation of what it is designed to do, and I think we will vote on it tomorrow after we vote on Senator Bingaman's amendment. No. 1, Senator Levin and his staff have been working on this, along with Senator Kyl and other Senators, for the last couple of days. I do not know how to say it other than it has been a lot of fun. It has been tough at times, but I think we have come out with a product that the Senate can be proud of, and hopefully the country can be proud of when it comes to how to treat detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Here is what we are trying to do. With my amendment, which we voted on last week, the concern I had was we were about to criminalize the war because of the Rasul case. Section 2241 of the habeas statute had been interpreted not to prohibit foreign alien enemy terror suspects from seeking habeas petitions in Federal court about their confinement and detainment as enemy combatants. The Rasul case was the result of the Supreme Court rejecting the Government's argument that Guantanamo Bay was outside the jurisdiction of the Federal court. They ruled that Guantanamo Bay was constructively within the jurisdiction of the Federal court, and in that opinion basically challenged the Congress.…”