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But as asset forfeiture is currently practiced, nothing is obliging the Government to control itself.

Even in the midst of the current reform effort, no bill before Congress would abolish civil asset forfeiture and I would not support one if it were before the Congress.

As Madison remarked in Federalist 51, in framing a government which is to be administered by man over man, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed and, in the next place, oblige it…

I would echo that if there is legislation that we can work on to force the issue along, I am happy to do that.

I have noticed, though, that the number of programs that are identified for cost savings and those that are identified with fragmentation, they seem to decline every year.

I think your responses have been very well done and on point here today.

I find it ironic that just a year and half ago, December 2013, when Judge Hanen wrote an opinion that there was a coyote who had smuggled a 10 year-old girl into the United States.

I agree with that but if they are giving permits for Guatemalans to have 72 hours as long as they are in transit to McAllen Texas, I don't call that cooperating with our policy.

I will just say our policy reunites them in their home country.

I would note the irony that one side is angry when you enforce the law, the other side is angry when you don't enforce the law.

The results will be simply less competition for the benefit of the American consumer.

I believe that mandatory minimum sentences are an important tool but that we need to use that tool effectively.

In other words, the decision has been made that Congress can't have the opinion, and so we won't get the opinion.

I won't get the opinion?

The Constitution recognizes us as equal, but I was going to call on you first because you are the senior Member here today.

Thank you for being here and raising such an important issue on a wide range of interests, especially to Iowa, from small businesses and individual inventors to our universities as well.

The good Senator Cotton took a lot of my A-10 line of questioning.

I understand we have a need to protect our taxpayers, but we have a need to protect not only our men and women in uniform but also all of our Americans here in our homeland.