The Supreme Court obviously needs to be very careful about its definitions of speech to ensure that real speech is not unduly inhibited.

This hearing before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary will come to order.

This is an important hearing on prohibiting obscene animal crush videos in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court case U.S. v. Stevens.

Well, again, this is a subject that I think the Congress wants to deal with as quickly as we can in a way that will ensure this time that we get it right, the courts will uphold what we do so that we can prevent the kind of cruelty that is…

I am a member of the minority but have worked with the majority to ensure that this hearing can be held whether or not members of the majority are here.

Okay. Obviously, the reason for that is to try to find how we want to define what would be prohibited here, to include all of those things that are involved.

And that is, of course, one of the reasons why we would be wanting to pursue this.

I oppose her nomination because of a very troubling development that I see in several nominations. At some point I think it is important to draw the line and say that the President has got to be very careful not to nominate people who…

I do not think the President should be pitting Americans against each other. Class warfare has no place in our debates. Americans agree with President Kennedy's formulation that a rising tide lifts all boats. Americans believe--it is our…

Elena Kagan is intelligent, well spoken, personable, and schooled in the law. She is skilled in the art of argument, perhaps to a fault. Ignoring her own advice in the now famous University of Chicago Law Review article, she did not…

Would you take back a concern on my part that it should be considered and planning should exist for a response and appropriate action for such an attack?

Do you think you could have told General Eisenhower it is too complex for one man to be in charge? He would not have believed that, and neither would I.

Given the catastrophic potential of an EMP attack, do you think that it should be included as one of the national planning scenarios?

More than two dozen Presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed individuals with some responsibility for biodefense, not one has it for a full-time job, and nobody is in charge.

A successful EMP attack would not require a high level of military or nuclear sophistication.

Unfortunately, Mr. Chairman and Senator Kyl, I am not proud of the lack of progress in the field of biosecurity.

I am working on it in two other specific areas I will not mention to try to get--yes, there is a superficial commitment to a particular cause the Government has to address.

Our preparedness for an attack by weapons of mass destruction is an issue of vital importance.

What I am going to suggest is that--I have got a couple questions that I can ask both of you for the record, but let me preview what they are.

Depending on the specific characteristics of the attacks, unprecedented cascading failures of our major infrastructures could result.

Unfortunately, our Government is not sufficiently prepared for such an attack.

I have to ask the question whether this administration, frustrated by the fact that Congress has not acted to pass comprehensive immigration reform, is now considering an end-around the Congress by administrative action through…

I agree with Chairman Cardin that the GAO, and the GAO, that the State Department's continued inconsistent application of data verification and counterfeit fraudulent detection techniques must be corrected.

If they were digitized. In fact maybe you could, either one of you can relate to this program for digitization of the records.

If there is another 9/11 and people obtain fraudulent documents as they did in that case like drivers licenses, for example, and people ask why it happened, I think every one of us has to be able to say we did everything we could to…