Sheldon Whitehouse

It is a terrific and unjustified government intrusion, I believe, at the behest of the credit card industry.

Families who think they are protected may be only one accident, one injury or one diagnosis away from family bankruptcy.

The Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act would give medical debtors across the country a fighting chance to save their homes.

Just sort of a basic element of plain old fair play, isn't it?

94 percent of metropolitan areas have a health insurance market that is highly concentrated.

In nine States, a single insurer controls at least 75 percent of the market.

In 39 States, two health insurers control at least half of the market.

I hope that the smooth sailing and passage that you've had through this hearing continues on the floor.

The extent to which the President can direct the exercise of statutory authority that is vested in someone else in the executive branch is one of the great questions of American constitutional law.

To the extent that there are duties that are specifically given to an office by Congress, even if that office holder is an appointee of the President, it may very well be that there are authorities that belong to that office that the…

Thank you, Chairman, and thank you for holding this hearing.

The point that I am trying to make is that, to the extent that there is some question about the authority that the President can exercise through his assistants and advisers, that is a limitation that pertains to the President himself.

One of our primary responsibilities here on the Senate Judiciary Committee... is to make sure the Federal judiciary has the tools and the resources it needs to perform its crucial role in our constitutional structure.

We all recognize the importance of the Federal judiciary in the proper functioning of our democracy and we all want to ensure that the courts have the resources they need to protect our liberties and administer justice.

Thank you for your determined and passionate and very thoughtful advocacy in these areas.

It could be the butcher at the market, it could be somebody who knows them at work.

I'm correct that there has never once been an adverse party that showed up in a 215 hearing. Not once.

The other question in my time remaining has to do with the Lone Wolf provision which as has been indicated, has never been used.

What is the difference between what is required to prove that somebody is an agent of a foreign power?

I am concerned as I think some of the other senators and witnesses have been about the question of the presumption that certain things are relevant.

And yet that remains a nominal requirement for the Lone Wolf authority, doesn't it?

Rather than continue to exist in a sort of fairyland in which a burden shifts to an empty chair and we all pretend to be satisfied with that set of procedures, we should maybe try to rethink how to do that in a more logical and sensible…

But he doesn't really have to be one?

I don't believe that those standards exist around the Nation.

How significant is it, in terms of your own investigative authorities and responsibilities as police officers, to not just have accurate scientific evidence, but timely access to it while the crime is fresh and the witnesses are around and…