The opportunity for peace is based upon a very fragile concept called personal safety and security.

Israel has felt for decades now that there is a noose around its neck regarding its energy supplies.

When I look at these resolutions regarding Abkhazia, South Ossetia, the bill regarding the Ukraine and the Crimea, what is missing to me is a sense of respect for the wishes of the people involved.

I regard that as unconstitutional, under the INS v. Chadha decision from 1983.

the bill, as written, indicates that the joint resolution itself is enough to rescind the President's action when, in fact, in order to make it proper, under the Presentment Clause, you would need a joint resolution and the President's…

This issue has come up twice now with the Supreme Court, both with the INS v. Chadha case and also with the line-item veto cases.

We really should be a little bit more circumspect about putting very aggressive provisions in our bills, in my opinion, that could very well lead to the unconstitutionality of bills.

Given the upside here, why do you think that there isn't more effort in the private sector to accomplish this?

Last question, is there any experiment so far to date regarding artificial biological photosynthesis that has actually resulted in the recovery of a fuel that had more energy content than what you put into it, what we call in the--in an…

I'm very happy to hear we're trying to do something to help them come through a crisis when men and women who have earned a living and supported their families are now just being thrown out because of a theory.

I think that the premise that we're operating on in this hearing is just wrong.