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Thank you once again, Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Leahy, and members of the Committee, for holding this critical hearing.

It is not resources. It is will. It is leadership.

They need to create a SWAT team that goes in, reviews all of the Secretary's calendars, reviews her memcons and telcons, and gets those e-mails out the door.

It will codify what President Obama laid out in his historic 2009 memorandum requiring Federal agencies to adopt a presumption of openness.

I place my money on the Associated Press because you get behind those numbers and you see what the Department of Justice is talking about.

Both Senator Cornyn and I said at the time we want this--the strongest act possible, whether it is a Democratic or Republican Administration.

I am hopeful--hopeful that will not be the case this year and that the Senate will soon pass meaningful and much needed reforms.

More time is not going to do it. What the State Department has got to do, they have got increasing requests because they have got a former Secretary running for President.

We are going to examine what this Administration has done to fulfill its promise of open government.

I will vote for more resources for answering FOIA requests.

There is perhaps no better tool that Americans have to help ensure open government than FOIA.

Our very democracy is based on the idea that our government should not operate in secret and we should embrace that.

The bill codifies the, quote-unquote, 'presumption of openness' standard so that agencies proactively disclose more information.

I would point out that I have in my hand an article from Investor Business Daily, and it is dated, by the way, the 6th of May, but is titled, 'Obama praised Baltimore police he is now investigating.'

I would like us to take a good look at that token and find a better way to respect and honor the rights of the crime victims in a more objective approach.

If the taxpayers that were funding then at $18,000 a year to incarcerate criminals actually had to pay the full amount of the damage due to crime, they would then incarcerate criminals--more of them and longer because it would be a better…

The price for crime is paid not by the taxpayers across the board, on average, so that we all share in that, but it's paid in great, huge, whopping chunks from the victims of crimes themselves.

The crime victims really don't have rights under the origin of the Old English common law.