Mike Levin

It is my privilege to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett), who is the lead sponsor on our unemployment insurance bill.

It is now my special privilege to yield 2 minutes to a leader in our party, the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Clyburn).

It is now my privilege to yield 2 minutes to another distinguished member of our committee, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Neal).

I will just say to the majority, get in the shoes of the unemployed. If you don't, I think those who deny it deserve their unemployment.

This is Linda of Seattle, Washington: ``I am a person, a hardworking American person at that, and I will be forced to live on the streets if EUC is not extended. It terrifies me; and if it happens, the struggle I will face to once again be…

The gentlelady referred to a particular situation. Let me read from another story, if I might.

I was looking through some of the letters. Let me just read a letter in which the author is a single parent from Geneva: ``I never thought that I would have to start all over again looking for work in my late forties. I hadn't even been 1…

Thank you. What we're trying to do, as you say, is to bring America into this debate because if the faces are shown and the voices heard, our faith is that somehow we'll act. And as you say, Republicans tend to blame the unemployed instead…

I agree that the authorities allowing for earlier receipt of Reserve retired pay should apply to members of the retired Reserve called to Active Duty in support of a contingency operation to the same extent it applies to other members of…

We are going to be making a unanimous consent request. I am not even going to use my 1 minute on this other than to say thanks to everybody who has been so heavily involved, which is just about everybody in this Senate. I want to…

There was a provision in the bill relative to the Freedom of Information Act which, by agreement, was modified.

I think this can be accepted on a voice vote. I have great problems with it, but I think there is probably a majority here that will favor it and a distinct minority perhaps that would not. But it is something which basically doesn't add…

I wanted to have a couple minutes. I wonder if Senator McCain is here, if there is an objection to extending this by 10 minutes. Is there objection? I am not going to do that without him here. Madam President, if the other side is ready to…

I doublechecked on this. The answer is no, and that is about as directly as I can say it. I checked with staff and the staff says they have been modified--in many cases as I indicated--but none in order to make them germane.

In response to Senator Grassley's question, I am very much aware of what he referred to.

The Senator from California, my great friend, Mrs. Boxer, is correct. We are willing to accept the Boxer-Grassley amendment by voice vote.

With all the risks that are entailed of being misunderstood and all the rest. That is something the Senator from South Carolina has engaged in, to try to see if we can put down what the detention rules are--by the way, ``are''--because as…

That guarantee is called habeas corpus. It has been in our law. It is untouched by anything in this bill. Quite the opposite; we actually enhance the procedures here. The Senator from South Carolina has been very much a part of the effort…

We could do that if we captured them in Afghanistan, but here we are going to be treating them differently. It ought to probably be worse. In other words, people who bring the war here, it seems to me, at a minimum ought to be subject to…

If I can interrupt, we have that right abroad against members of al-Qaida. But under this approach we would not be able to assume that military detention at home, again, subject to waiver and subject to all the other protections we have.

There was a naturalized citizen involved in Quirin, who was arrested, as I understand it, on Long Island, and who was charged with crimes involving aiding and supporting the enemy.

That is exactly the point. This language, when it is described as language that says somehow or other it works against using civilian courts, is from folks who haven't read our language. The language is explicit. On page 360, lines 3…

Would the Senator also agree with me that under the provision in the bill, on page 360--we were told that civilian trials are preferable to military trials, preferable to the detention of an unlawful combatant. Does the Senator agree that…

I very much appreciate Senator Graham's remarks. He said the provision provides for military custody as a beginning or starting point. I wonder whether he would agree that not only is it a beginning point, but it is only for a narrow group…

On my time. Quick question. After the 30 minutes expires, because we are not going to have a vote now, there would be additional time should the Senator need it after that 30 minutes.