John Cornyn actually said...

"I do not have any statistics at hand, but I would imagine that the number of people or the percentage of people who actually file lawsuits is a much smaller number than those who make FOIA requests in..."

"A crime not prosecuted does not produce the kind of deterrence that we would want to prevent other people from committing those similar crimes."

"It strikes me as disproportionate and one that is basically being used inappropriately to try to bully someone into pleading guilty to something that strikes me as rather minor."

"But I think we are actually interested in what would work."