Jay Rockefeller: “This is not a matter of selling citizenship, I repeat. I want to be able to explain that. It is not a matter of selling…”

“This is not a matter of selling citizenship, I repeat. I want to be able to explain that. It is not a matter of selling citizenship. You come in, and then for $500,000, if you can produce 10 jobs for West Virginia, for Americans, if you can do that, then after a period of 2 years of that activity, then by three different agencies with an analysis from those agencies, which is extremely tough, if you then pass muster, then you can become a citizen, but not before. If you would ask if I would turn down somebody from England, or if I would turn down somebody from somewhere else, and I worked for 10 years to get the Toyota Motor Company to come to West Virginia--10 years, and they came, do I feel that somehow--I am just making a point--that because the person comes from Japan, or because they come from Taiwan, or because they come from some other place and they have some money and they want to come to this country, which is what the Statue of Liberty is all about, and they are willing to put 10 Americans to work and those 10 Americans turn out to be 10 West Virginians in the case of InterBank, and other companies that are interested in West Virginia in a like manner, I would say bring them on.”