I am glad to have had the occasion to be on the floor and hear the words of the very distinguished Senator from Utah, who has served with such distinction on the Intelligence Committee for so long, but I would respond to him first that…

today I rise to speak for a few moments about health care and to recognize the extraordinary work four Members of this body have done to promote an integrated, interoperable health information technology infrastructure in this country…

I consider it a great personal honor to join him in sponsoring this important amendment. We face, as Senator Specter said, the critical balance between freedom and security, which will always be difficult to maintain as long as a threat of…

In this debate about revising FISA and cleaning up the damage done by the President's warrantless wiretapping program, the administration has talked at length about the importance of our foreign intelligence activities. It expends all its…

I ask them to let me know when that new approach will begin because I am, frankly, not seeing much of it in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act procedures we are going through on the floor. I confess, I am a new Member of this body…

I appreciate very much the arguments made by the very distinguished Senator from Missouri, who is also the vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee and possesses great experience in this area. My point, though, is that all these…

I salute his leadership in this area because perhaps the most significant thing that has been accomplished so far in this FISA dispute, that has been accomplished in a bipartisan fashion, in a manner in which great credit reflects on Vice…

Thank you very much, Director. Let me first tell you how much we appreciate the work that you did back in, I guess, 2008, on the original IRIS process, which as GAO found lent itself to interference, perhaps even capture, and was not…

the president is always right.