Government access to content and communications should require a search warrant issued based on a showing of probable cause.

The goal of 100 percent scanning is the right goal?

That is a decision that Congress made. It is the law. It is not up to the department to change that view.

Madam Chair, I regret what I am about to say could have been and was said a year ago. Not much has changed, but more lives have been destroyed and more billions of dollars have been wasted, all to no intelligent purpose. The whole premise…

You must implement 100 percent scanning as quickly as practicable within 5 years.

Congress decided that a layered high risk--a layered approach of inspecting only high-risk cargo...was not sufficient.

I am concerned that DHS simply decided it did not agree with the law and has never made any good faith effort to resolve the potential challenges.

the bond between parent and child has long been respected by our legal system as a fundamental right.

Most organizations that work with families, such as World Vision, believe that the treaty will actually do a great deal to support families and protect children.

the fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the state to standardize its children.

I do not believe the case has been made that parental rights, as protected by the Constitution, are in peril.