I hope you consider it quickly before the conference convenes, which may be soon.

This hearing of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties will come to order, with the agreement of the minority.

the voluntariness standard, which is a due-process-based standard, is the appropriate standard.

We will continue to have to intercept and detain individuals who have attacked us or who threaten us.

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.

The question is a majority of total seats or a majority of Members living.

I hope to hear from today's witnesses about some of these important issues.

The Nation runs the risk in a national crisis of those proportions of turning into a dictatorship.

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.

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.