Jeff Sessions

It bothers me that you had no real concern, or the President did not, about releasing portions of those memoranda that deal explicitly with techniques that could be used, information that I think could be helpful to the enemy.

I think we have exaggerated the extent to which this is somehow violative of our Constitution.

If you wiretap a Mafia leader and he calls somebody whom the court does not have an approval for, you can listen in on that conversation.

Somebody suggested otherwise, but that is what the Government Accountability Office does.

I share those concerns. Senator Hatch and I have, I guess for 9 years, had legislation to make a substantial improvement in that.

They think it will do 'little good and great harm.'

I have been disappointed that you have been so late in responding to my letter about the Uyghurs.

I would suggest we have a hearing on that. It is a matter that is worthy of our attention.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I appreciated the opportunity to discuss with you some of the details of the confirmation hearing for Judge Sotomayor.

I think that is one reason murders are down substantially from what they were in the 1980's.

I could not agree more.

Now, you represent a very sophisticated department. You have been at this a long time.

What do you think about the requirement in 2005 Congress created a funding incentive to cause States to test rapists, the perpetrators, for HIV within 48 hours, I believe, after arrest?

I just do not understand what the hesitation----

I think that virtually every community has more specialized units, Penelope Houses, protective houses for women and children who have been abused.

I do warn, however, that I sense about a movement that is beginning to go soft on the lessons we learned.

Tell me about the DNA. In a sexual assault case, how important is it that DNA be determined and maintained for potential future use?

Let us pursue that a little bit. You are a professional, and you have been at this a long time.

The most valuable thing the Department of Justice can do is to do the good research that helps individual police departments and prosecutorial offices make the right decisions.

Training programs have increased dramatically, and most departments are far more sophisticated today than when this program originally passed.

I do not know why that would not be just a standard protocol and why we would not support that.

Every dollar of it needs to be wisely and most effectively spent.

I think the clarity of the preference, the benefit--the clarity of the benefit provided to a traditional marriage relationship provides some help in keeping integrity in the system and its being abused.

How about the situation--isn't it true that if you have a spouse in Colombia, let us say, that spouse would go to the U.S. consulate on Colombia and would present a marriage certificate or some document that virtually every nation in the…

Our Congress has voted not long ago overwhelmingly that marriage should be defined as between a man and a woman.