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Earlier this week, the co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission, Lee Hamilton and Thomas Kean, in an op-ed for the USA Today, wrote that ``national security is too important to become a partisan issue.'' And I could not agree more. That is why I…

If you were in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, right now, you could be taking part in the annual event that reminds us all of what is wholesome and fine in this country. A few hours wandering through the Pennsylvania Farm Show, and nostalgia…

An American citizen is being held illegally and unjustly by the Burmese Government today, and we should do all we can to return him to the United States and to his family. Nyi Nyi Aung has been imprisoned in Burma since September 3, and…

I want to commend the Chairman and Members of this Committee and others, even those not on this Committee, for the work that has already gone into dealing with this horrific financial crisis that the country is living through.

We cannot say it enough. And, frankly, there is not enough being done to meet the challenge that poses.

It is Yahoo! is more valuable in Microsoft's hands than Yahoo! is in Yahoo!'s hands.

The Internet has come to be such a major factor in our communications, very, very important.

We are really in such a transitional age, it is hard to keep up with all of the technical advances.

It seems hard on the surface to accept the argument that if you have a combination which gives a market share of 90 percent that it is not anticompetitive.

If Icahn wins the proxy fight, you can pretty much tell he will have control of Yahoo!, won't he?

Do you think there ought to be a balancing test?

It would grant the government's claim on the determination by defining 'state secret' as any information that, if publicly disclosed, would be reasonably likely to cause significant harm to the national defense or foreign relations of the…

I believe that the pending legislation is very salutary because it brings the court into the picture to make a determination on whether there is a state secret.

Mr. Vatis, do you think there ought to be a balancing test?