"I am going to keep talking about this issue until the relevant statutes get fixed--the privacy and constitutional rights of the American people are at stake."
"We also have recently seen evidence of numerous mistakes and abuses by the FBI in using its NSL authority."
"I didn't ask that. I said do we have the capacity to hold dangerous people in our maximum security prisons."
"It is difficult to say what benefits this has yielded, because outside of general statements and idiosyncratic data on their use, I have not seen any hard, empirical evidence that this explosion in re..."
"To call the SPLC... a spurious organization is a little beyond the pale."
"It is important that the law is enforced effectively. It is also important that the rule of law is respected by everyone."
"The Southern Poverty Law Center is, by almost unanimous consent, one of the most respected institutions in this country."
"That is not law enforcement, that is subversion of the law."
"I would hope that this hearing has been productive and conducive to passing this legislation so that both the victims, the heroes of 9/11, and the contractors, who were also both heroes and victims, c..."
"I want to first thank the Chair of the Immigration and Claims Subcommittee, Congresswoman Lofgren, not only for agreeing to hold this joint hearing."
"I am hopeful that, with the changes we have made to the bill this year and with the support of my colleagues on the Committee, we can finally pass it this year."