Jay Rockefeller: “I start out by disputing any thought by the senior Senator from Arkansas that the words ``patriotism'' and ``Bumpers''…”

“I start out by disputing any thought by the senior Senator from Arkansas that the words ``patriotism'' and ``Bumpers'' don't go side by side--I know the Senator himself knows that to be true--in his service in the Marine Corps, his service in this body, the things he has been through over the years. He is a patriot. He is a marvelous man. He happens, however, to be marvelously wrong on the amendment that he puts forward, which in spite of the larger framework of the immigration bill, is a very specific and very targeted amendment which would do enormous damage to what we are trying to do in areas of my State that need this program desperately, and which do enormous damage to some of the things that I and others I work with--Governor Underwood and others--are trying to do in the State of West Virginia. I refer to the attempt to eliminate the EB5, the immigrant Investor Program.”