Thank you Chairman Dorgan and Vice-Chair Barrasso for holding this timely and important hearing.
The fact is that many forensic tests have never been exposed to stringent scientific scrutiny.
These are worrying figures for any country, let alone the world's leading democracy.
In my opening statement I asked whether we should consider a nationwide moratorium on the death penalty.
We incarcerate more people than any other industrialized nation--in fact, we incarcerate more people than any nation, pe...
I found the article extremely disturbing and the findings of the National Academy's report to be terrifying.
I do think that we have some common agreement on the need to move forward here with some of the recommendations from thi...
I think you're completely correct.
I have found some common ground with prosecutors, defense lawyers, and police, that we always want to get the right pers...
I think you need some sort of independent scientific research program.
Over 25 years ago, Minnesota was the first State in the Nation to adopt legislation to address acid rain.
So presumably that could help with that particular sector? Is that right?
9.8 percent. So that seems closer than it was in the past.
Is that why one of my letters, that I will not read to you, referred to this as the 'man-session' instead of recession?
We know we're not out of this, that this isn't going to turn around overnight.
But by 'improvement,' that means a slowing of the unemployment rate?
Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I know we can and will do more and that we will do better.
