Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Iowa for yielding, and I also want to thank Representative King for his good work on the Judiciary Committee. I have just been listening to his last few comments and appreciate his pointing out so many facts about immigration law and about what is going on there. The reason I wanted to be briefly recognized is because we've had some recent developments in some poll results just in the last day or two on some of the same subjects that the gentleman from Iowa has been discussing. It's no surprise, for example, that in the latest Pew poll, it shows that only 25 percent of the American public approve of President Obama's handling of the Nation's immigration policy. The Obama administration is not enforcing our immigration laws and, in my view, has failed to protect our borders. Arizona, which is trying to do what the Federal Government has not done, continues to enjoy strong support for its policy. According to the most recent Pew poll, 73 percent of the public support requiring people to produce documents, verifying their legal status if police ask them to do that, and 67 percent of the public support allowing police to detain anyone who can't verify their legal status. And just today in The Wall Street Journal, there was a Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll. It asked the American people a number of questions, but one of them was about the Arizona law.…”