Jon Kyl

One of the concerns that I have expressed about an activist judge is whether or not you approach deciding cases with those agendas in mind or you lay them aside.

Once a legislative body creates a welfare program it's the proper role of the courts to grasp the community meaning and purpose for that welfare benefit.

I've just gotten notice now that I do have to run, but could I just welcome each of you and apologize for what seems to be a very unfair process here.

You've been pretty outspoken in your criticism of the current Supreme Court. In fact, you've suggested that it lacks both principle and legitimacy.

The constitutional guarantee of national citizenship has never realized its potential to be a generative source of substantive rights.

I am very disappointed that the administration appears to be putting a very low priority on securing our southern border.

Violence there is escalating exponentially. Thousands of people have been killed just south of the border by drug cartels.

How does the Ensign amendment affect service to small and medium hub airports inside the perimeter?

I appreciate my colleague bringing that to light. The answer, of course, is absolutely yes. I think at last count there were some 38 States that had expressed either through their attorneys general, Governor, or State legislature the…

Yes, I will. I was about to get to the final point, which is the matter on which my colleague from Tennessee is the expert, and that is the latest item to try to flavor the legislation to get more votes; namely, to have the Federal…

I remember sitting back in the cloakroom and listening to Dr. Coburn when he was talking about how he treats patients who come into his office. A child, he said, comes in who has had a fall on the playground and the parents…

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

Well, at least the cases I am aware of, personally aware of, do get into the issue of intimidation against those who blow the whistle on terrorist support.

I appreciate the desirability of having uniformity.

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.

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

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?

It just seems to me that if somebody--the best place to do business in the world is still the United States of America.

I do think that deterrent effect is crucially important.

Or bilateral--not necessarily a treaty, but there are various other kinds of bilateral agreements and arrangements between different countries.

I think we would be looking for a declaratory judgment that would address the specifics of the way the judgment was rendered, the facts of it, and would say that the judgment was rendered in a way that is inconsistent with the First…

I think we are all seeking the same thing here.

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.

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.

I have to respectfully disagree with the approach they take in their commission. I do it for basically three reasons. First, I have never found either the House or the Senate in a position where they were anxious to cut spending and…