You are embarking, each of you, in somewhat different ways on a career of public service that will entail a lot of hard work, a lot of late hours.

I share Senator Sessions' high opinion of the JAG Corps.

But certainly since Congress is not interrogation experts, it would be a mistake for us to foreclose your ability to apply Miranda warnings where the case-by-case and fact-intensive determination made by the professionals suggested that it…

The fact that over and over and over again career prosecutors resigned rather than pursue prosecutions under the military commissions as they previously existed is a sign that something really was wrong.

This is wrong. We know this material. This is wrong.

I think you have said that you look at these matters case by case and you make a very specific fact-intensive determination based on the particular circumstances of each case, correct?

That is not a great track record.

I would urge you to take a look at the way in which the counsel for folks at Guantanamo are treated.

We do not need it and it is causing us far more damage than any good we get for it.

Colin Powell has never been a Member of Congress, and he is a person who I think America has confidence in on national security matters.

Yes. That is true in politics, also.

Many of us in Congress, led by Senator Durbin, tried to include in the TARP legislation a provision that could have kept millions of families in their homes at zero cost--zero cost--to the taxpayers.

This proposal would have corrected an anomaly in the Bankruptcy Code that prohibits judges from modifying primary residence mortgages the way they can modify every other type of contract.

Well, it has been a long ordeal for our witnesses. So, all I will say is that we look forward to your practical, forward looking and optimistic voices around here.

I just want to observe that it takes a bold legislator to want to go back into that blasted wasteland, and I'm delighted that you are doing it.

I appreciate very much my friend from Missouri's passionate defense of union wage scales and the kind of middle class life that unionized employment can bring to the middle class.

there is a very strong do nothing caucus in the Senate. Their emotion is fear, their goal is doubt...

In every major case since he became the nation's 17th chief justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over the legislative and the corporate defendant over the…

Jeffrey Toobin, a well-respected legal commentator, has recently reported that -- and this is a quote -- 'in every major case since he became the nation's 17th chief justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the…

I have to say you come very well represented here, and I am very pleased to have you here as Michigan's Director of the Department of Natural Resources.

Thank you very much, John, and once again, welcome. It is wonderful to see you here.

Our first priority should be to prevent the introduction of invasive species or diseases into America.

This is a significant issue. Two factors drive it. One is global commerce, and the other is a changing climate.

I look forward to hearing your recommendations.

This is irresponsible and too much of a pay off to industry.