Jeff Lungren Quotations

We've seen everything but the kitchen sink being thrown at the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act remains a top priority to get enacted. To the extent people don't focus on that or move away from it or try and mix the two (issues), that's not helpful to moving the Patriot Act forward.

We have safeguards to ensure people aren't deported who shouldn't be.

We're looking into the issue. No final decision has been made on whether having hearings is an appropriate action.

I would expect that the House will forcefully advocate for those provisions. I would say its prospects look fairly good.

If we had a conference report, we would have filed it. Until everything is agreed upon, nothing is agreed upon.

If someone has better language to get at this problem, he's certainly open to it.

It is 100 percent baseless and false. These provisions were requested by border-based U.S. attorneys to help crack down on human smugglers.

It is a bill we intend to consider.

It is a push by bankruptcy opponents to try and delay the implementation, more so than a good-faith effort to help Katrina victims.

We have a tentative agreement. We don't expect anything to be changed.

There is a lot of new information in there, and members will no doubt want to follow up on it.

You send exactly the wrong message. You essentially treat as suckers everyone that follows the law, that waits patiently outside of this country to come here legally.

It's kind of like where we were five weeks ago.

It's on the top of the agenda. We've got strong bipartisan support. We want to make sure the legislation is right, especially with constitutional issues.

It sounds like we might need another short-term extension.

It's disappointing to hear from some (states) that it's inconvenient or too difficult to implement.

Because it treats one person differently, there's a special, strict scrutiny a private bill undergoes to ensure the integrity of the House, because it's such a powerful tool.

I don't see any of those bills moving this year,

The goal of this law was to insure that all bill-paying Americans, including victims of Hurricane Katrina, don't have to pay the debts of others that can afford to pay.

The chairman requested their views because they are recognized as leading scholars in this area of law.