"the voluntariness standard, which is a due-process-based standard, is the appropriate standard."
"I hope you take that back and have it done."
"We cannot have such a doctrine and yet also have indefinite detention, because that means detention to the end of time."
"I hope to hear from today's witnesses about some of these important issues."
"We cannot wait until a crisis to find out whether we are adequately prepared for a catastrophe."
"I am especially concerned that a House of Representatives, well short of the majority of its 435 seats, might wield the war power or the power of the purse without legitimacy."
"The Nation runs the risk in a national crisis of those proportions of turning into a dictatorship."
"If we knowingly fail to act, or if we act by passing symbolic but ineffective and unconstitutional measures, we will have left the nation in peril and failed in our responsibilities."
"The question is a majority of total seats or a majority of Members living."
"So our current system since the Civil War is unconstitutional."
"Today the Subcommittee examines the military commission system and, more importantly, how we as a Nation can work together productively to clean up the terrible legacy of the Bush administration's det..."
"One question which arises immediately in view of the apparent Administration position, as stated yesterday by Department of Defense general counsel Jeh Johnson that we can hold indefinitely even peopl..."