Rand Paul

It's been greatly on decline over the last 30 years.

Every regulation doesn't save lives. And, there is a point or a balancing act between when a regulation becomes burdensome enough that our energy production is stifled.

This is going into effect May 2, and we'd really like to see the studies as to how you're determining the cost and how you're determining whether or not this is a health problem that needs a change in the Respirable Dust Rule.

The prevalence of black lung has been reduced from 33 percent to 3 percent. I think we've been doing a good job.

Can you provide the information to my office for the health reports and the studies that went into why we need to change the Respirable Dust Rule?

I think we need to try to continue to do what we can to isolate and target who could attack us.

I was just thinking more of people who have been to Yemen three times and Somalia twice and they are not on your watch list, but you might want to spend a little more time with them.

If you fly from Islamabad into Kennedy Airport and then you are going to fly on to Chicago, do you go back through any screening or are you just relying on what happened in Islamabad?

Does the TSA examine flight manifests?

We are made to feel like criminals and we do not want to be made to feel like criminals when we fly on a plane.

And with regard to setting up a frequent traveler program, you say there are a couple of airports we are doing it in now?

What reason do we have to be admitting so many, and is the policy of the Administration to continue to admit so many, and is it not a danger to our country and overwhelming us with numbers of folks who have to be screened and apparently…

I think we should change that.

I would just encourage that we continue to expand this, that it is long overdue.

I think it is sort of an insult to our soldiers who are over there to say that it is unsafe.

I can kind of understand that after we lost the war in Vietnam, the communists took over and people who sided with us or fought with us would be executed.

I mean, it is really doing police work.

That is a real problem. I mean, we got lucky because of the informant, but I guess that is the real problem.

If they overstay their welcome, if they overstay their student visa, are we systematically going through--like Senator Lieberman talked about with the exit program, do we have an exit program on all student visas?

The 59,000 refugees that Senator Collins brought up, you say you are going to screen them.

It is insulting our privacy. Our parents do not like it. Our kids do not like it. It needs to change.

But it is not a totalitarian regime. We have a democracy over there. We are supposed to be proud of that government.

The policy should change.

Perhaps it is that our philosophy is that everyone is potentially a terrorist and everyone has an equal chance of being a terrorist.

You will screen all 59,000.