He said it two years later. He didn't say it during the Senate deliberations.
I respect Bill Bennett. I don't agree with him on everything. I don't agree with him here, just as I didn't agree with him on Prop 187, which advocated English only in California schools. (The English-only classes which Prop 187 brought about are working beautifully,BTW.) Nobody's infallible.
Hey, I could be wrong here, but I will not brand another man a racist over comments that were not racist. I'm sick and tired of dancing to the tune of the race pimps and their willing accomplices in the media.