"That is a 50-percent change. That is not a small change, it is a huge assumption."
"What can the Federal Government do to help expand investment in rail?"
"We have to deal with that problem."
"I was simply suggesting that none of this makes any sense until you have determined that someone is an enemy combatant."
"However narrow or broad the basket, you have to answer that question first--Are you an enemy combatant?--and have the procedural due process."
"Isn't it the case that if Russia or China or someone were doing what Mr. Cole posits, that we would condemn that out of hand?"
"We need due process, but not judicial process."
"I don't understand how a unilateral determination by an executive branch official without any judicial involvement can be considered due process in any form."
"Either this person is an enemy combatant, or he is not."
"But who can determine that under what standards, and what precedents do we have?"
"My point was that however narrow or broad the basket, and I am not suggesting broadening it, you have to answer that question first--Are you an enemy combatant?--and have the procedural due process."
"It seems to me that there is one further thing that any good immigration reform should do, and that is to eliminate unjustified, invidious discrimination that is present in the system."