It is incumbent upon the criminal justice system to ensure basic fairness to them.

I am not as concerned about the individual prosecutors involved. Their fate will be determined in another forum.

When the government conceals information in a prosecution that could undermine its case against a defendant, such concealment is fundamentally and constitutionally unfair as well as unethical, and it is actually illegal under Brady v…

I commend the Attorney General for taking decisive action after the findings that you have outlined, dismissing the prosecution of Senator Stevens with prejudice upon learning of the misconduct.

Somebody showing up multiple times in the same precinct is a problem that needs a focus.

The covered States are covered the old-fashioned way, they earned it.

If you don't have an ID, you don't even know where to--a lawyer doesn't even know, can't even articulate where you would start.

The Federal law requires that you have to have a birth certificate or a passport.

Ladies and gentlemen I will call to order the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Armed Services Committee.

I think the perspectives that you all provide are extraordinarily valuable.

I think that is a good point to make sure there is closure there, not just the strategy itself, but how do you hope to accomplish that and maybe have a little longer-term perspective in how that comes to be.

Dividing budget cuts equally between nondefense and defense expenses as in last year's sequester will neither resolve our finances nor assure our security.

Is the continued drift toward a smaller and smaller Navy troubling? Yes, it is.

the Nation's debt is the greatest threat to our security.

this was likely a modern era turning point for the fleet.

I want to thank you all so much for taking the time out of what I know are busy schedules to help our committee better understand the implications of our 30-year plan for Navy force structure, our defense industrial base and, most…

So while one can understand the concerns raised by my colleague, and I share them, on the other hand the idea of 'let us not engage, let us in fact have a policy of implacable hostility,' has consequences.

Perhaps making a Devil's advocate argument about it, though, the idea of 'Why would we negotiate with or be engaged with a criminal regime?'