We welcome our Judiciary Committee putting an oar in on this as well.

Could you be a little more emphatic than that?

The numbers of people being arrested at the borders and the enforcement of our borders is, as I interpret what he said, more lax than ever.

This no doubt talented and charming member raises the question for me of is she tough enough for this job.

I thank Zoe Lofgren for letting me go first.

the benefits must be calculated as well?

merely holding repetitive hearings about the cost of Federal regulation misses the point.

the benefits associated with these very same rules are estimated to be between $126 billion to $663 billion.

I believe further that requiring back doors in all communication systems by law runs counter to how the Internet works.

Our communication companies must be allowed to innovate without technological constraints if they are to continue to develop products and services that successfully compete with foreign companies.

I believe that legislatively forcing telecommunications providers to build back doors into systems will actually make us less safe and less secure.

So if the NSA can function in that environment, I would certainly hope that the FBI can learn to function in that environment.

What is it that two solicitor generals, Fried and Dellinger, don't understand about the constitutionality of the issue that brings us here this morning?

States can and do require citizens to purchase car insurance.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney featured an individual mandate as part of his successful health care reform law in Massachusetts.

As a universal single-payer health care advocate, I was not enthusiastic about all of the benefits that accrued to the insurance industry under the Affordable Care Act.

Now, I enjoyed our first reading of the Constitution on the floor in the Congress in all of my career here.

I think that a case could be made for the FCC becoming stronger.

There are only two that are in compliance out of 212.

Look, you must know, I found out in 5 minutes that the tribes don't get out of anything.

It looks like there is a constitutional problem as big as this room involved in that Supreme Court case coming up.

I find myself in the position of, first, hoping someday that we will have a clear examination of this law and make the changes that importantly need to be made.

This is an unfunded mandate. Nobody has used that term this morning, and so I will.

I would love to be able to avail myself of such remedies.

I opposed this too a few years back, only I didn't have the courage to say anything and speak up about it.