Dan Coats: “We in Indiana do not like to go into debt. We do not like to raise taxes.”

Electoral legitimacy is the essential linchpin of our entire political culture.

We have to figure this out.

One of the first things you can do--at this hearing, even--is to make a strong statement of support for professionalism in the IC and pledge that you will not tolerate politics influencing the analytical process.

We can create a discipline, a way of thinking about these challenges.