the urgency on terrorism has been too low, and we have to reject complacency.
I think it is a very tough bill to draft.
It is too important that Congress' oversight be as good as it possibly can be.
You do hold people accountable, as is appropriate, and you go on with the aim of securing the country.
I really want to urge you to not find any excuse acceptable by the chiefs of mission for not having a Visa Security Program.
There ought to be a category where there is some basis for concern about contact with terrorism.
We are in a world war with the Islamist extremist terrorists who attacked us on September 11, 2001.
We ought to try to avoid it if we can.
congressional oversight, I think leadership from our point of view have to be the keys to doing that
I share Senator Collins' concern both about the decision to try Abdulmutallab in a regular Federal court as opposed to a military commission...
Thanks, Senator Burris.
We were using a standard that was, as you said, legalistic.
We live in an age when any one of us and our young children, our grandchildren now in my case, can go on the computers, go to Google, and se...
Because it has now been 5 years since the enactment of the 9/11 Commission recommendations for intelligence reform, Senator Collins and I de...
It just seems to me that if somebody brings some information to the U.S. Government that suggests in any way that a person is involved in te...
If we do not hold accountable those who made these human errors, the probability is greater that they will be made again.
al-Qaeda is on the march, not on the run.
Our responsibility is clear: We have to find what the systemic failures were and fix them.
