Mike Levin

Will the Senator refrain for 1 minute? While Senator Feinstein is here, I understand it is now preferable from our leader that the vote be at 2 o'clock, not immediately following this half-hour debate.

So it is agreeable, then, that there will be an hour of debate on the second amendment starting at 3 o'clock with a vote at 4 o'clock?

Reserving the right to object, I just want to know if the Senator from California understands that the vote on the second Feinstein amendment would be at 4:00 and that the debate would begin at 3:00, with that hour equally divided.

I wonder if while the Senator from Oklahoma is here--we are trying to get a current list of amendments. Is it his intent to withdraw amendment No. 1101 on C-12 aircraft?

I believe Senator Inhofe may wish to be recognized to talk about another amendment or a couple amendments that he has. We will not take any further action on those amendments now. I think we are perhaps, hopefully, ready soon to offer a…

I thank Senator Inhofe for the modification of his amendment. It is agreeable on our side.

Now I believe we have one other, Senator Inhofe's amendment, which now I think is agreeable on both sides. Amendment No. 1098, as Modified

Let me just ask Senator Merkley a question, and then I think we can proceed from there. It is my understanding that the original language in this and related amendments had the dates 2012 and 2014 in them, and it could have been…

Reserving the right to object, I wonder if the Senator would just seek the right to--the Senator has a right to speak on another amendment without setting aside this amendment. So I ask that the Senator not set aside the pending amendment…

My question, though--my question is: Did Justice O'Connor say that, in Quirin, that one of the detainees alleged that he was a naturalized United States citizen, we held that--these are her exact words: Citizens who associate themselves…

Would the Senator agree that she quoted from the Quirin case, in which an American citizen was captured on Long Island?

Would the Senator agree that the Justice said the following, that a citizen, no less than an alien, can be ``part of or supporting forces hostile to the United States or coalition partners'' and ``engaged in an armed conflict against the…

You already have. Given the facts of the case. I understand the facts of the case, that it was somebody captured in Afghanistan. My question is, of the Senator: Would he agree that Justice O'Connor said--she is talking about this case, of…

I agree with the Senator that Justice O'Connor said what the Senator said she said. Would the Senator agree with me that Justice O'Connor said: There is no bar to this Nation's holding one of its own citizens as an enemy combatant. Would…

She did not say that. She said ``a citizen.'' I know what the facts of the case are. She did not limit it to the facts of the case.

I wonder if the Senator will yield for a question. Would the Senator agree that the majority opinion in Hamdi said the following: There is no bar to this Nation's holding one of its own citizens as an enemy combatant.

Yes. Mr. McCAIN. To interrupt, briefly, I wonder--in the interpretation of the Senator from Illinois of the Constitution of the United States--if it is an American citizen, say, somewhere over in Pakistan, who is plotting and seeking to…

It is good policy. If they decline, under the procedures under our language, the person should be first interrogated for whatever length of time those procedures provide--by the FBI, local police or anybody else. They have the right to do…

I read this yesterday, and I will read it again now. The Senator is right. I don't know how anybody reading this can reach any other conclusion but what the Supreme Court says, not because they are right or wrong but because of the Supreme…

Not only does 1031, the overall section, not change the law, it incorporates it, according to the administration's own statement of policy on what the current law is. The Senator is right. There is nothing in here which in any way affects…

I am aware of the concerns raised by the Senator from Ohio, and I assure him that I will give careful consideration to those concerns as we go to conference with the House of Representatives on this provision.

Reserving the right to object, and I won't, I have two unanimous consent requests that will take just a couple of moments.

It is fine, if my colleague wishes to discuss amendments without attempting to offer any amendments.

The Senator from Arizona will control, if this is all right with the Senator, half of our time. Will that be all right? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

We have approximately a half hour on each side. I am wondering how much time Senator Graham needs?