if the priority is to secure our borders and increase military spending, then we should not be slashing their budget.

Thank you for holding this important hearing.

I appreciate your commitment to work with us on that, and I look forward to our working together to address this.

What do you see as the most viable path for going forward and developing a fully operable backup system using eLORAN or otherwise?

the budget issue has been further complicated by 15 years of focus on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism as the Army addressed current needs in Afghanistan and Iraq.

We would have seen our democratic process controlled by five unelected lawyers here in Washington, DC.

There are over 60,000 Members, law students and lawyers and, indeed, those just interested in the Constitution and the rule of law.

If they filled his seat, we would have seen a Supreme Court where the will of the people would have been repeatedly cast aside.

I think that is important to note in the public debate that part of the reason we have such a robust arena of free speech...

In heaven, there is no law, and the lion lies down with the lamb. In hell, there is nothing but law, and due process is meticulously obeyed.

Judges are not supposed to make law. They are supposed to faithfully apply it.

Well, Judge, I thank you for that very scholarly and erudite answer.