Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wonder if maybe we could work with the Committee that Chairman Lieberman and Ranking Member Collins...

If it's just a matter of funding for a commercially available program and it could be as effective as you say it is...

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…

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.

You might need to be careful in view of the judge's decision in Arizona yesterday putting an extra burden on the United States government when you seek to verify U.S. citizenship.

I think it might be helpful for us if you could give us a brief report, memorandum, that tells us all of the things that you think are necessary for you to do your job the very best in issuing passports to people only who are entitled to…

I think it is much more difficult for people to try and pass themselves off as Americans than it is for Americans to pass themselves off as other Americans.

So can you answer my question then, ma'am?

Let me ask you both. Ms. Sprague, you indicated I think three specific things here that would be helpful to you.

It is clear that you would need a broader interpretation of the Quarles exception in these terrorism cases...

the DISCLOSE Act is a direct assault on the first amendment right to free speech. Protecting political speech, guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, is one of our most sacred responsibilities. This is a partisan bill drafted behind closed…

I suspect my colleague, the senior Senator from Arizona, will have something in response to say to my friend from Iowa. But what I wish to talk about is a comment Secretary of the Treasury Geithner made on television yesterday, in which he…

I rise simply to insert into the Congressional Record two very interesting pieces from the Arizona Republic. The first is an op-ed, a column, by Bob Robb, who is one of the most erudite columnists I have ever read. He comments on the…

in the Rose Garden on Tuesday, President Obama stood with three long-time job seekers and reminded us that out-of-work Americans want to find work, and no one here, of course, questions that. I hear every day from Arizonans who look for a…

it is my honor to help host our guest Chaplain from Arizona, Rev. Donna Kafer. On behalf of Senator McCain and myself, I thank the Senate Chaplain and all others who have been so courteous to Reverend Kafer on her visit to Washington. She…

I think we all agree that the purpose of financial regulatory reform should have been to tackle the problems that led to the financial crisis in the first place. That means serious reform must, at the very least, end too-big-to-fail…

The editorial is entitled ``End run denies public a debate on health care.'' The point of the editorial is that while we had a very long debate over the so-called health care legislation--I think the name of the act was the Patient…

Thank you, Mr. President. Now let me set the record straight. Republicans have never said no to Dr. Berwick. We have never blocked a vote on Dr. Berwick. There has never been a vote called on Dr. Berwick. In fact, there has never even been…

The American people must wonder whether the Obama administration is really committed to securing the border when it sues a state that is simply trying to protect its people by enforcing immigration law.

the role of a judge is to put aside any biases or prejudices and to impartially apply the law.

There is no Federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage.

The court existed primarily to fulfill this mission.

judges should have a keen understanding of how the law affects the daily lives of the American people.

We do need more diversity on the Court.

Well, the stats are 80 percent. So that is a pretty good percentage, when you ask them to take a case and they do.