Are we really meeting the goals behind closing Guantanamo if we simply bring detainees to the United States for what could be indefinite retention?

At your confirmation hearing, you committed to restoring the integrity of the Justice Department by ensuring its independence from politics.

I just want to reiterate how important it is for the legal justification for this program to be withdrawn.

if the statute is that explicit... it is, in fact, unconstitutional for the President and illegal... to override the express will of the Congress.

Any system of indefinite detention raises those kinds of issues. I do think this could be a very big mistake.

The price of sending and receiving a text message among the four largest cell phone carriers increased by 100 percent.

American consumers pay more for wireless phone service than most other developed nations.

Maintaining competition in this industry is more important than ever.

This hearing will come to order.

I'm very pleased that this hearing is being held. It's been quite some time since the committee has explored this issue and one that I think we can all agree remains one of the greatest challenges to our national security.

Accordingly, we have to prioritize this issue as long as North Korea continues these provocative and dangerous actions.

The stakes are far too high for an ad hoc, uncoordinated policy, and we must make clear that violations of international law and basic human rights actually have serious consequences.

We think the bill is a good first step for agriculture, in that it does not attempt to regulate agriculture or to cap the emissions from our industry.

If EPA is put in charge of offsets and USDA does not have a significant role in the implementation of offsets, we will oppose that, as well.

With all of the taxpayer money that Chrysler has received, I do not understand, in spite of his statement, why we would move these jobs to Mexico.

anytime we treat these detainees as something special, anytime we treat these detainees as the warriors they claim to be by giving them military rules, military detention, military tribunals, we are actually reinforcing their narrative.

I think that is where we put our Nation at severe risk by what we did.

We do have a rule of law that we have to figure out how we are going to deal with this.