Another perspective on deployment, I know our office has helped expedite in my local community with the National Guard one of the most prominent certified public accountants (CPAs) in our community who wanted to be transferred from one…

It seems that we're in rare agreement here as a committee and everyone who has been in front of us that we need to move ahead with NextGen as quickly as we can.

Hopefully it will be bipartisan, not to serve our goals, but to serve those folks who trust us every day for their safety.

I think we are absolutely convinced and have indicated as much to the DOT and the Administration, that if we can find a way to have an additional $6 billion to $7 billion investment over the next few years, we can jumpstart this process…

I appreciate what you are telling us.

It is not really fair to sit here in the quiet peace of the moment and put ourselves in such a holier-than-thou position, because you do not have to make that decision. They did.

I do not doubt that you are trying to help the country.

It is intensely frustrating.

The idea that you would read your political opponents into your crime makes no sense.

I do not question the Chairman's motivation. He is a very fine man, and I think he is rightly disturbed by some of the decisions that were made in the past, and so have I been.

I believe in the Geneva Convention. I believe that the moment we capture somebody, the obligation falls upon us to abide by the Convention.

What happened on September 11, 2001, was unprecedented. It was the most vicious attack on our homeland by a foreign entity in the history of the Nation.

Let's have both sides of the story here.

I also want to acknowledge the tireless work of Senator Feinstein...

Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, OK? That is part of his legacy, is he thought the Nation was coming apart, and he was right.

If we are going to find out who did what when, we need to find out who was told about it and when they were told about it.

Let me conclude by saying what a very sad day it is for America and for the Department of Justice...

The Geneva Convention to me has always been a warehousing agreement between the signatory nations.