First of all, let me thank you, Chairman, for holding this hearing. This is a very important piece of legislation of those who have lived through it.
It is distinctly in the public interest for this information to come out.
Looking back, do you believe it was prudent as a Nation to have run up, as I calculate it, the $7.7 trillion in debt during those 6 one-part...
We seem to have an inability here to grasp the obvious that people who are out there in the environment, working in the real world and the r...
I asked her, where was the minority report; she said there wasn't one.
I think that is an unfair thing, it is so un-optimistic about America to cloak it in those terms.
there is an element in this discussion of using the rules that we do pursue to enable the better angels of our nature to come forward.
You note in your testimony the importance of keeping up pressure on al-Qa'ida in the Federal Administered Tribal Areas.
It raises issues about privacy. It raises issues about civil liberties.
if the Senate is dignified and decent, then we can find a way to have that dignity and decency control.
I think Senator Alexander's idea of trying to take this up a little bit more formally, particularly with the new Senators, is a very good on...