On June 4, we are going to hold our hearing on the FBI budget request, and the committee will do something different this year.

Can I have your assurances that nothing would be done in States and local communities without consultation with us and also consultation with Governors?

the cost and expense, particularly with them being off the coast of Cuba and our coast, require a great deal of expenditure just to maintain the security and the classification.

We are pleased at the direction that he is going in.

I really salute Secretary Clinton, when she went to Mexico, and took ownership for our insatiable demand for drugs.

The American people rely on the Department of Justice, and we are passionate about restoring it to what its original mission is.

We need to enforce the law. We need to respect international law. But we have to make sure that streets and neighborhoods are not going to be the repository of Guantanamo prisoners.

What would this $30 million do, and is this laying the groundwork for the dumping of terrorists into State and Federal prisons?

I am glad to hear that safety of our people is the number one concern.

We want to support you in that.

I believe Southwest border violence is a very significant threat and if we don't intervene aggressively now, it will have horrific consequences to our security.

What you are saying is that right now you are doing an inventory of who is there at Guantanomo Bay and what is the right way to dispose of them, as well as also doing a real evaluation about what are the best interrogation policies that…

We also have now a task force against mortgage fraud, where another type of predator is stalking our communities.

I believe there is another 'pandemic' in the United States, and that is the insatiable demand for drugs.

We believe these are very important priorities.

I support the President's agenda for closing Guantanamo Bay, and at the same time, as a United States Senator, I want to make sure that we protect our neighborhoods and communities as we look at what is the honorable and right way to deal…

It's a proposal similar to a measure recently introduced by the distinguished senator from Maryland, Benjamin Cardin.

Four out of four is unacceptable.