Pat Roberts

As a Marine, I take this issue personally and it helps that we have 37,000 military men and women stationed in Kansas.

Mr. Chairman, I move that we adopt the rules and resolution.

Let us make sure their votes are counted.

I think our service men and women certainly deserve more.

I will take your advice to heart.

I have the dubious privilege of being the longest serving member on the Ethics Committee in the history of the United States Senate.

There was one by John Cornyn that passed the Senate by unanimous consent, but it was somehow dropped over in the other body, in the House.

Opening Statement of: Hon. Pat Roberts, a U.S. Senator from the State of Kansas.

Science and math competency is increasingly essential to this country.

This is the biggest unfunded mandate that the U.S. Congress has foisted on the American public and the American school system ever since conceived.

please, help us to do everything we can to get that funding up to 40 percent.

It is called money. It is called raising a family.

I hope we look at it not as reimbursing based on utilization, but rather based on healthy outcomes.

Roberts says he saw the NIE back at the -- in the spring. And he says, if you read the whole report, he says it does buttress the administration's argument that there are a lot of successes on the war on terror.

I believe now that we are less capable, we are less safe than we were before.

If another attack occurs because of this information going out and giving the terrorists at least a leg up in regards to what they know and not know and changing their method of operation. If that attack comes, the people who have written…

the administration has repeatedly stated its intention to expand the USA PATRIOT Act.

I have become skeptical on all of these fronts.

Senator Craig's SAFE Act would restore the ascertainment requirement.

I happen to believe that the Lone Wolf provision may be unconstitutional and that, in light of other criminal surveillance authorities, it's unnecessary.

I think there have to be additional safeguards. And the obvious and best safeguard is prior judicial approval.

the Justice Department has been quite frank in its use and desire to use the USA PATRIOT Act in non-terrorism contexts.

the FBI used the USA PATRIOT Act when it executed a covert search of Mayfield's home.

I think this is the perfect occasion, certainly, to take up Senator Rockefeller's suggestion about these provisions.

the Justice Department has not produced any compelling evidence that the USA PATRIOT Act has been essential in preventing al Qaeda-style terrorist plots.