Orrin Hatch: “I understand. When we appeared down at the Cabinet room we promised the President, on our side, at least, we would not…”

“I understand. When we appeared down at the Cabinet room we promised the President, on our side, at least, we would not make this-- we would try to get it passed. I made it very clear at that time that habeas corpus reform would be in the bill and we were trying to satisfy him on it. I have not heard that he is against the provisions in this bill. If he is for what the Senator from Delaware wants instead of the provisions in this bill, I certainly will be interested in that. Because I do not think he wants to limit it just to the Federal courts, the appeals. Let me just say this. When we were there we said we would not make this a gun fight. We will do that, if we have to. We will face those issues on the crime bill. And we have succeeded on our side. We have a lot of people over here who are very dissatisfied with some of the current laws with regard to the right to keep and bear arms that we have personally gone to and said, ``Do not bring them up on this bill. The President wants an expedited bill. He wants to solve this problem, and, by gosh, we intend to solve it.'' And our people have not. We turn around and here we have the gun fight started on the other side, that is irrelevant to this bill.”