Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for this hearing.
I recently introduced a comprehensive surveillance reform bill--it is bipartisan--the USA Freedom Act.
If we do not enact meaningful reforms, it is going to affect businesses, too, is it not?
the very first Justice of the Supreme Court I got to vote on as a Member of the U.S. Senate was John Paul Stevens.
I would note there are 17 nominations pending on the Senate floor waiting for clearance by the Republicans.
I had hoped to also include the five nominees for the judicial emergency vacancies in the District of Arizona in this hearing, but we have n...
Is our country safer because you cannot answer the question?
Without greater transparency, we are not going to restore public confidence.
I think more and more people agree or should agree that we need additional transparency about our government surveillance activities.
I am worried about overclassification. I find oftentimes--and every administration has been guilty of this--it is easier to classify a mista...
I am going to weigh that feedback very carefully.
That is why I urge support for the Franken-Heller legislation before this Subcommittee today.
My bill would not even require anything near this level of reporting.
I joined Senator Franken to introduce the Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013.
One of my biggest concerns about Section 215 phone records is that the legal rationale underpinning it has no limiting principle.
I believe that the bulk collection program mostly authorized under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act should come to an end.
We should be willing to reevaluate mandatory minimum sentences.
In Rhode Island, under the leadership of Director Wall, we passed reforms that allowed inmates to earn credit toward their sentences.
