Evan Bayh: “I have high confidence that, if confirmed, they will be superb additions to the Federal bench.”

We need to be realistic about that.

I will make one comment I do not expect you to respond to, but a skeptic might look at all this and say what was really at work here was a choice between an eventual orderly restructuring or a disorderly restructuring that could have been…

I would like to thank all of our witnesses today for your contributions.

There's something fundamentally wrong about that. If we can pursue our Nation's security without putting them or us as a country institutionalizing hypocrisy, I think America is stronger, we are a more just and secure country.