If we are not including contractors in the protection of the whistleblower legislation, then we have a huge problem here.

We should not pass laws and then not have to adhere to them.

If a district court were to conclude that a Member of Congress does not owe a duty of trust and confidence to the United States and to the American people, I would be mightily surprised.

I think we have gone over pretty well, and very helpfully to the Committee, what we should do in response to this problem in making clear in law unambiguously, if I may say so, that Members of Congress and our staffs are covered by insider…

Thank you, Senator McCaskill. I mentioned before you could be here that ideally we will get something drafted for which we can get a majority of the Committee before we depart in December.

I would get it down to something like 10 days because, again, I do not think it needs to be so burdensome.

I think now I come to a different kind of conclusion, which is that there is genuine ambiguity in the law.

Members of Congress need to demonstrate to America that you take our concerns about your ethics seriously.

One thing I have enjoyed about being on this Subcommittee is the wide range of topics that we investigate.

it is imperative that Congress pass a STOCK Act soon.

I think that the ethics rules are not clear enough, and the House Ethics Committee just 2 days ago issued guidance.

We cannot stand idly by while children's lives or health are potentially put into danger.

If somebody is only going to get a mild reprimand or a letter of admonition for having done something like this, really that does not hurt very much.

The American people deserve it. We will see if politics will play a role in it or not. And it is up to us.

But now you convinced me that there is ambiguity that has to be resolved.

It is unacceptable to think that infants are getting drugs one year or younger.

I hope that the two of you will be able to work with Senator Collins and me to come up with a joint bill.

I thank my friend from South Carolina for his expertise in this area and also his sense of principle. We have colleagues on the floor who want to speak. I want to say a final word. I know the Senator from South Carolina is particularly…

That is absolutely right. The Senator stated earlier-- and it is an important point--this is the danger we get into as we start to treat people who are terrorists as common criminals, or even uncommon criminals, which is that the criminal…

I thank my friend. I absolutely agree. I talked to professionals in this business of interrogation, and they say some of the most effective interrogation takes time. I have had people describe to me detainees who were totally…

Well, there is no question our enemies have declared it part of the battlefield. The very official commencement of the war against Islamist terrorism, 9/11, was an attack on America's homeland, on civilians.

Again, Mr. President, I thank the Senator from New Hampshire. Just in listening to her, it seems so unacceptable that we are basically telegraphing to our enemy exactly the range of tactics that we will use against them as part of the…

Again, I thank my friend from New Hampshire, but I want to go back to something I said earlier. We have described the purpose of this amendment--what I call the due process we have put into it, the mandate that it comply with existing…

I do. There has been a lot of talk about the Constitution. The Constitution makes very clear that the primary responsibility we have in the Federal Government is to provide for the common defense, to protect the security of the American…

I thank the Senator for that answer. I completely agree with her. It is important to step back and perhaps state the obvious. Why do we capture enemy combatants? Why do we take prisoners of war? Two reasons, really. The obvious one is to…