The GPS Act creates a uniform warrant standard for government demands of location data.

I think there should be a standard. I don't think that the probable cause standard as set out in this bill is appropriate.

A legislative body is well situated to gauge changing public attitudes, to draw detailed lines, and to balance privacy and public safety in a comprehensive way.

We see this as a pretty serious problem, as you might guess, in our area of the country.

I also want to congratulate fellow Ways and Means Committee member Dr. Charles Boustany on his bipartisan legislation to address evasion and underpayment of antidumping and countervailing duties.

It is time for us to admit that our strategy about Iran, a nuclear armed Iran, is not working.

Thank you very much, Madam Chairman.

To clarify my position, President Reagan was responsible for the death of the Marines in Lebanon.

What is happening with the executive director? Do we have one coming soon?

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing today.

So, are you going to proceed with some investigating that is going to lead to some litigation, or are you going to continue to work in ways that will allow those who are being accused to 'neither admit nor deny' and just keep settling and…

Last November, when Judge Rakoff rejected a negotiated settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Citigroup, it captured the attention of the public and really focused us, in Congress, on just how frequently our…

I led about 40 Members of Congress in writing to you and the other co-chairs of the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group about my concerns that this important task force was stalled.

I believe that it is important for the SEC to litigate some of these cases under the umbrella of this task force, given the commitment to justice and the promises that were made about this task force when the President made his State of…

a lot of people are watching to see what is happening with this widely announced task force that is supposed to do all of these investigations and bring about some justice for many of these homeowners

I would say this is the Congress's responsibility, not the executive branch's, to fix, and I would urge you to fix it as quickly as possible.

What I would plead with the committee to consider doing is, if you cannot provide more money, let us look at ways to simplify the statute, simplify our responsibilities.

In a normal year, Mr. Chairman, this would be the kind of bill that would be considered a motherhood bill.