We cannot have such a doctrine and yet also have indefinite detention, because that means detention to the end of time.

I hope you take that back and have it done.

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

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

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

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

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.

We cannot wait until a crisis to find out whether we are adequately prepared for a catastrophe.

So our current system since the Civil War is unconstitutional.

I would point out that the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2008 said, with regard to the Uyghurs, or with regard to one of them at least, quote. 'It is undisputed that petitioner is not a…