Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"It is illegal."

"I think if we had come forward and opined on some balancing test or some other aspect and had not looked at the statute carefully, people would have criticized us, 'Well, you did not read the statute...."

"The bottom line is nobody knows what the Supreme Court would say when confronted with such an extensive and ongoing program of this kind."

"I may be the only person on this Committee who feels this way, but I believe that the disclosure that only 30 percent of these records are actually collected and that the proportion has plummeted sinc..."