I think those anecdotal examples of just outrageous spending by the Federal Government are extremely important.

As a business person, when you see some department that is really out of control, you either eliminate it or you drastically cut its budget.

I am highly concerned about products not being able to be utilized in government buildings anymore that will cost jobs.

Madam President, I have been listening to the debate on spending and taxes and our debt and deficit. I come to the floor this morning with a few visual aids and charts and graphs to try to dispel some of the myths I have been hearing. The…

Mr. Speaker, the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, enacted in 2006, is landmark legislation intended to keep our communities--and most importantly our children--safe from sex offenders and other dangerous predators. This…

Protecting Americans' privacy is a bipartisan issue that I hope my colleagues will continue to advance in the years to come.

Are you finding DHS to be very helpful from that standpoint?

I think this is very timely. The full Senate now is taking up the cybersecurity bill.

Mr. Wilshusen, you testified about the concept of limiting the information the Federal Government obtains and basically limiting the time that it is kept.

Has the expectation of privacy changed?

The challenge, I think, right now is to enable that personal development not by having to self-edit because of the fear of going to a Muslim Web site.

As we watch every terrorist act, the aftermath of that, people start doing a postmortem on that, and they go, well, we had this information, why did we not put two and two together and prevent the attack.

It is also highly complex.

Promoting privacy and civil liberties has been a priority during my tenure in the U.S. Senate, and I will continue focusing on this issue until the end of the year.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

So, when we turn people who are trying to help us into suspects, it builds exactly kind of distrust that we are trying to prevent and I would argue hinders investigations going forward.

This is obviously not an acceptable timeline.

the right to a personal life. That is really the fundamental piece here is that it is very difficult to explore new ideas.