it seems to me that, just as a general proposition--let me get your reaction to it--that while guidelines are really important when you are investigating these kinds of activities, you also need to be very careful that you do not get into…

In retrospect, knowing what we know about 9/11, you know, a light bulb would go on in our mind.

Well, if I could just interrupt, these are your words, not mine, the 'all crimes, all hazards' approach.

One reason I mention this is that yesterday Senators Lieberman, McCain, and I held a hearing in Phoenix about the drug cartel activity coming through Mexico and spilling over into the United States.

I urge you to do what you can to remind the Secretary, in case he did not hear what I had to say these last few days to go ahead and take out the starter's gun and shoot it off and let us go.

I can assure you that resolving the contract issues with the air traffic controllers is a top priority for this Administration.

In my State of New Jersey, we are looking to break ground on the largest mass transit project in the country, a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River.

The project will take 22,000 cars off the road each day, create 6,000 construction jobs each year for 10 years.

In my Amtrak bill, which was signed last year, we required that the Northeast Corridor be brought into a state of good repair by 2018.

Nothing can be as ready to go as this tunnel project is.

But if I can interrupt you, how do you--some three people rented an apartment that had only magazines in it.

So there could be different standards, depending upon the nature of the investigation.

Well, with all due respect, a lot of police work is based on hunches and suspicions...

I think you are skipping one step. The names are reported to someone who determines whether or not they have any kind of information on them.

The Byrne-JAG assistance grant should be funded at full strength of $1.1 billion as originally recommended by the Senate.

If we are to have a robust national drug control strategy, we must not cut the resources available for these efforts.

I want to introduce and lend my support to Mr. Peter Appel, of Alexandria, Virginia, who has been nominated by President Obama to be the Administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) at the U.S. Department…

Coming from Virginia, which faces some of the most significant transportation challenges in the nation, I understand the critical need to bring our Nation's best thinking to address transportation issues.