I do think that deterrent effect is crucially important.

Has anybody looked at international treaties to advise us where we might potentially find a remedy there, if we were able to work with some other countries?

Is there a legal--does Congress have an enhanced legal ability to deal with this nationally because of the international nature of the issue?

This is a subject which I think it would be very important for Congress to begin to act on before this problem gets much worse.

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), the Senator from Alabama (Mr…

I would like to see something that has a deterrent effect in it as well.

I think that it would not be any more than any First Amendment decision such as New York Times v. Sullivan sets the floor, it does not set the ceiling.

Just thank you, and we want to hear from the witnesses. This is a really growing, important topic for American citizens, and to have the Committee engaged in it I think is very important.

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from New…

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from New…

Mr. President, recent warnings from Moody's that the United States will have to begin addressing our debt in order to avoid downgrading our triple-A bond rating mean that we have to get serious about doing something about the latest…