Thank you, Senator Lautenberg and Senator Schumer, for your leadership on this matter.

Thank you for your continuing commitment to helping us get to the truth.

I worked hard, here in the Senate, to secure funding so that the victims' families could attend the trial that took place in The Hague.

You both have said that it was a very strong, unequivocal position of the United States that al-Megrahi should not be released, certainly not be allowed to return to Libya.

Based on that statement alone, is there not reasonable suspicion that the United Kingdom's decision to conclude a Prisoner Transfer Agreement that did not explicitly exclude al-Megrahi was based primarily on the U.K.'s concern about its…

If we don't know how a guilty terrorist could go free, then we will not be able to hold international terrorists accountable in the future.

However, I still believe we do need a full investigation, including testimony of the al-Megrahi release, so that we can learn from this mistake and assess what steps can be taken so that justice is served and terrorists are held…

Do we send a message that a convicted terrorist, a mass murderer can ultimately, after a period of time, be free and live in the lap of luxury?

We are a nation founded on the rule of law; and when the law and our notion of justice is turned on its head, for whatever reason, we believe it is our obligation to turn it back again.

We have to know how an oil company was able to reap actual profits from the course of these events.

I have urged the Prime Minister to do in a meeting with him when he was in the United States.