Mr. President, without relinquishing the floor, I yield to the Senator from Texas for a question.

Mr. President, I think the question is well put. The first aspect of the question is, What is the President thinking? Why would the President not respond to us? Why would the President not answer a pretty easy question and say that…

Mr. President, I think it is very reasonable. It is more important than just the nomination of one individual. When we are talking about whether the Bill of Rights is going to be changed, when we are talking about whether you will have the…

Mr. President, the analogy that the Senator from Kansas brings up I think is appropriate. We have had rules on the books since the Civil War saying the military doesn't act in our country. So it is not just a drone; it is any sort of law…

Well, there has been a white paper that was released that goes through a series of things. They do have a step or a process they go through in determining whom to kill. The problem I have is that in foreign countries--I do not know the…

Mr. President, I think the analogy is apt. The difference is a recess appointment you get to make your appeal to a court while still living, which makes a big difference. In the case of the recess appointments, the President decided he…

Yes, I agree with the comments of the Senator from Utah. The whole problem is that if the President says my plan has due process, that would be sort of like me saying I have passed my law, and I think it is constitutional. Well, the same…

Well, Mr. President, this is what makes this debate so important. This debate is about the fundamental rights that we--most of us, or many of us--believe derive from our Creator and that it is important we not give up on these; that we not…

Mr. President, I am aware of no legal precedent for taking the life of an American without the fifth amendment or due process. What is troubling, though, is that Attorney General Eric Holder is on record as actually arguing that the fifth…

Well, Mr. President, the response is a little bit troubling; that it took so much work and so much effort of cross- examination to finally get an answer. I will note, in his final answer, I don't ever see the words ``constitutional'' or…

Mr. President, I am quite surprised, although I guess I shouldn't be, that we don't get direct responses. It is a pretty direct question. It is the question I have been asking all morning. It is the question I have been asking for a month…

Yes. I think there is really no question about using lethal force against an imminent attack. I think that is why we need to make the question we are asking the President very clearly. The question is if planes are attacking the World…