The hearing will come to order.

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-party years?

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 real environment see every single day.

I think that is an unfair thing, it is so un-optimistic about America to cloak it in those terms.

I asked her, where was the minority report; she said there wasn't one.

When he uses words like 'pandemonium', 'carnival', 'ignominy', 'ridiculous', 'chaos', and 'spectacle' about an organization that he loves so deeply...

It raises issues about privacy. It raises issues about civil liberties.

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 one.

if the Senate is dignified and decent, then we can find a way to have that dignity and decency control.

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.