I think as most people know, the way I do these judgeships is that we have a bipartisan screening committee of attorneys on both sides.

We have a law that has essentially taken the courts out of any adjudication in this issue.

Well, let me just say it is within all of our job scopes to care about how the United States of America acts.

It was the urging of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, she being a camper, that moved us to start a petition to gather support for repairing the flood damaged campgrounds as funded by Congress.

This goes on week after week and month after month.

They have been adjudged so, and they have no place to go.

the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques should never be used--past, present, or future.

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I have come to believe that the only way we prevent these attacks is good intelligence.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

I, as you do, believe that both these programs are legal, that they are carefully overseen.

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Why would elected officials reward gangbangers who are in the country illegally with amnesty and a pathway to citizenship?

We are already under attack. This is the new, enduring war. We are in a cyber war every day.

The NSA only uses section 215 for phone call records, not for Google searches or other things.

I think it is really very important to show the cases where this has been used and has been effective.

Cyber legislation is needed for that. We need to be able to share that information, and all of us need it because we all will have a role there.

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Director Mueller of the FBI said that cyber crime will eventually surpass terrorism as our number one threat to America.

The President has issued an Executive order. But just because authorizing has not happened does not mean that nothing is happening.

The section 215 business records provision was created in 2001 in the PATRIOT Act for tangible things.

If I may quickly, Senator. It is my understanding you have the metadata.