Political Quotes

“my amendment does everything that my colleague stated as a desired goal. His amendment goes a step further. This is the reason we have two votes. He establishes a new criterion for a crime that could result in incarceration up to 20 years. It is so vague that I assure you it could not get through the first year of law school. It says you could go to jail if ``you materially overvalue any good or service.'' There is no regulation, no criterion by which to judge that. As a consequence, this body would be enacting a new criminal statute without any hearings, without any thoughtful process, and would subject the contracting community, which numbers in the tens of thousands of individuals supporting the men and women of the Armed Forces all over the world, to this very vague proposed criminal statute. I urge strongly that you vote against the Leahy amendment. I regret that, I say to my good friend, but we cannot put on our books this statute. It would be wrong.”