Speech #1040201758

The position that he has taken and the position that this amendment would take would be to reverselet me say that againreverse a very delicate compromise that was reached in 1986 in the SimpsonMazzoli bill in regard to open field searches. Let me go back and review very quickly some of the history behind this. In 1984. the U.S. Supreme Court said that a search warrant was not required for open field searches but in its opinion invited Congress to look at the issue and to take action in this regard. In 1986. some 2 years later. when we looked at this whole issue of illegal Immigration. Congress did speak. and it was an Integral part of that compromise. A very delicate compromise was worked out when I was in the House of Representatives.