A lot of people here are saying we're doing to this to send a message to Washington. That's not the right way to handle it. You don't pass legislation and put stuff in the Virginia Code to send a message to Washington.

This will have the tendency to authorize police to make decisions based on ethnicity.

We would become the only state in the United States to prohibit the admission of undocumented students to colleges or to technical schools or for completion of a GED (equivalent of a high school diploma).

The proponents of the ... amendment clearly continue to try, in every way possible, to conceal from the voters the real impact and potential far reaching consequences of the proposed amendment.

Nobody knows what this thing will do.

What people in Washington are saying is that Fitzpatrick simply could not stand up to the pressure of the Republican leadership when they demanded that he vote with them, meaning that on such a vital vote for his district, he prioritized the Republican Party marching orders over the interests of his own constituents and his own principles. People in Pennsylvania's 8th district have to worry that if Fitzpatrick caved in to GOP leadership pressure on CAFTA, what might he do on a whole host of other issues on which he has committed to his voters but which are not in line with the Republican leaders' positions.