Senator Leahy and I sent a letter to the President along with 14 of our colleagues urging him to conduct a thorough revi...
Did the folks get bonuses? We have held hearings... where those particular institutions had institutional problems.
the improvements that have been proposed by Senator Feingold and by Senator Leahy are so important.
I think that is why you have a lot of Americans on the right and left who are worried about intrusive and unchecked gove...
Minimization procedures are supposed to protect the constitutional rights of all of us.
Congress has seized the initiative here.
Also the bill I introduced with Senators Cardin and Kaufman include new audits on Section 215 orders for tangible things...
The bill I introduced this week, the USA Patriot Act Sunset Extension Act has a 4-year sunset in all the three expiring ...
I mean, your letter says you support oversight.
We can safely say those fears did not materialize.
I do believe that this committee after 9/11 fulfilled its responsibility by carefully scrutinizing every single word in ...
I press hard to shine a light on the misuse, there has been a misuse to the State Secret privilege.
I worked to ensure that the USA Patriot Act included oversight.
They didn't follow the statute. It is one thing to talk about oversight and all that and the reauthorization, but the st...
We had a former longest serving member of this committee, the late Senator Ted Kennedy was eight or nine or ten times re...
We all want to be safe. We all want to catch criminals. That is not the issue.
I don't believe that subsequent events have proven that there have been any abuses of the Act to date.
In the 2006 USA Patriot Act Reauthorization, we required, and I helped write this, the Attorney General to adopt procedu...