I have been to hundreds of classified hearings and never heard anything classified, and most of the important stuff is already in the newspaper.

One of the fundamental things is the separation of power.

If we had a working committee with these four and a few others, I think we would avoid the pitfall of having good intentions and then passing something that does not work, which is a pretty common occurrence in government.

One of the fundamental things is the separation of power.

If we had a working committee with these four and a few others, I think we would avoid the pitfall of having good intentions and then passing something that does not work, which is a pretty common occurrence in government.

This is a great panel today. We rarely have an issue where both sides seem to agree on it.

One other item I just wanted to get to was while we all seem to agree on the problem, we all seem to agree on a lot of the solutions, the one thing that sometimes divides us is how we pay for things.

We either have to have congressional power over funding or some sort of independent agency.

I join Senator Johnson in hoping we can get bipartisan requests for records.

I have been to hundreds of classified hearings and never heard anything classified, and most of the important stuff is already in the newspaper.

secrecy is the ultimate mode of regulation . . . for the citizen does not even know that he or she is being regulated.

Democrat proposals typically just shift costs around so that they can mask who pays for what.