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.

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

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

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

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…

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

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.

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

But he doesn't really have to be one?

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

I'm just wondering what your observations are as prosecutors about the extent and the merits of additional procedural protections in death penalty cases.