Senator Benjamin Cardin has already introduced the Newspaper Revitalization Act which is intended to fully clarify this question.

Congress should create a commission to review and make recommendations about the reform and revitalization of America's public media...

I was hoping that you could perhaps bring us up to date as to where we are in your review as to whether we can improve the way that we bring information into our data banks and share it with local law enforcement and protect the privacy…

Congress has passed a law that established a Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and it has never been appointed.

Four out of four is unacceptable.

I just want to bring that to your attention that our Subcommittee is also going to spend a good deal of effort looking at the relationship between the different agencies.

Let me go to another hearing we had in our Subcommittee which dealt with sharing of information among intelligence agencies as well as with local law enforcement, and this has been a continuing battle.

If Iran were to become a nuclear weapons power, it would be a game-changer that would cause major impact in that region--something we cannot allow to happen.

I think the Obama administration would be well advised, if they go into negotiations, to do it in a very--a set basis.

we have an obligation to make sure that our system is done in an adequate way.

If you believe that the law is inadequate as it relates to those people who have Social Security numbers and providing information for you to do an adequate check, then let us know.

I am not sure we all agree with Senator Feinstein that there should be no exceptions to the rule.

Using your report based upon their response, it was predominantly a human error problem in the end.

this is a matter of, I think, extreme importance for national security.

That is even more concerning.

I am still not comfortable that we have a system in place that will stop the issuance of a passport, checks have been made as to whether this person has a valid Social Security number or not.

It should never have been issued, but we have taken additional steps to ensure that the 'No record found' will, in fact, stop the adjudication.

Because how do we know that that will not happen--that is not happening right now?