"I appreciate the fact that the ball is now in our court here in the House."
"We want a path. And at the same time we need to combat the people that would illegally come in, the drug smugglers, the weapons traffickers, and all."
"At the Judiciary Committee's first hearing in this Congress, we discussed opportunities for legal immigration as well as enforcement of the law against undocumented immigrants."
"This is an important hearing, and we know that everybody's currently focused on the Senate Judiciary's markup of S."
"I note that some of our Members have been outspoken in opposition to the Free Flow of Information Act in the past and have commented publicly about their outrage over the Associated Press subpoenas."
"I am troubled by the notion that our Government would pursue such a broad array of media phone records over such a long period of time."
"Today is Peace Officers Memorial Day, and I would like to begin by honoring those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in serving our Nation."
"I continue to have serious reservations about amending the Constitution in order to aid victims of crime."
"This is an unusual hearing in that I can't remember ACLU ever quoting Justice Alito before."
"This question of cell phones and tracking locations are right smack up against the privacy considerations."
"Government tracking of everywhere we go is contrary to our reasonable expectation of privacy."