Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail)

It will create a diplomatic rift between two sovereign states at a time when we depend on the diplomatic services of this country and the diplomatic efforts of the United States to gain special recognition for the illegal Irish in the US. I have come to the conclusion, based on my knowledge of the case, as I am sure have other Senators on this side of the House, that it is an outrage for anybody on the opposite side to suggest, because we do not agree with their contention on this matter, that we have been harangued into it or that we are lackeys for somebody else. That is an outrage——