Orrin Hatch: “I am just trying to do my job--as a chairman. I am trying to fill these courts, and I have not seen anything wrong here…”

The FBI does not do investigations like this. The responsibility falls to us.

We need good, decent people to step forward to contribute even when it is ugly, particularly when it is ugly.

Without adequate mens rea protections, that is, without the requirement that a person knows his conduct was wrong or unlawful, everyday citizens can be held criminally liable for a conduct that no reasonable person would know was wrong.

It has been one of the great honors of my life to serve on this committee.