Chaka Fattah

And I think the country will be excited to witness the Space Exploration Meeting that the President is coming to lead and to listen.

I think that you know, given the work of this Committee and the leadership of our Chairman, that we are very interested in trying to make sure that Legal Services can continue and improve to close this justice gap.

Legal Services Corporation is not providing any lawyers on behalf of drivers, cooks, bottle watchers for Osama bin Laden under any circumstances, right?

I think is nonsense. And it is a disservice to many, many people in our country who are not afraid to--you know, and I'm glad this Administration is killing and capturing bad guys all over the world.

So you are not a political appointee of any kind, you are just serving the public's need to administer the prison system.

I just thought in the United States of America that we would not be in a position where we would be fearful of taking someone who had harmed American citizens and of putting him before the bar of justice.

Have there been incidences where those trials were taking place in which Americans have been harmed or have been under some threat?

You took this job a few days before 9/11. Since that fateful day, you have done a great deal to make sure that our country could be safe, and you should be applauded for that.

Maybe diverting some people from the system whose crimes, even though they are crimes, could be addressed in a different way.

We basically as best as I can tell, I mean there have been some tweaks here and there, but basically our prison system is pretty much the way it has been.

We don't want them back Director, don't send them here.

A society that is resistant and discriminates against people who have been incarcerated.

The real secret here is that the vast majority of them are going to come back to our communities.

The notion that somehow he was being coddled just doesn't square with the facts in this instance.

No arrests in the United States of America are being handled any differently for suspected terrorists since 9/11 up until this moment; is that correct?

I wrote to you about this whole mortgage fraud area over, I think, 2 years ago and about the fact that these numbers of cases are, well, quite close to 3,000 now, up from, I think you testified in your written testimony, 400.

I want to go through a couple of things.

We would expect that there would be an opportunity for justice to be done.

I can understand the desire for perfection here, but if you follow the Chairman's thought, and it is in your testimony, that there is a direct link between you doing your work and other Americans being about to go to work, and new…

The government only works at one speed, which is slow.

I realize we have a vote coming, so just some quick questions.

Absolutely. Well, thank you for your testimony, and we need to look forward to continuing the progress that you are making.

We have wasted over $1 trillion of our money in this ill-conceived war in Iraq.

I think the first place we should start in these loan agreements is the $20 billion we spent in Iraq on reconstruction.

In order to expedite this process, which I think is a great way to proceed.