Patrick Leahy: “I have helped get some of the money through here for the pilot programs.”

Do not turn your material, do not turn your reports over to the Executive Branch and let them tell you what is or is not classified.

Congress was the original classification authority (OCA). It let that power essentially slip away to the Executive Branch.

On February 23rd of this year, Senators Schumer and Coburn and I wrote you a letter commending your decision to sever ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR.

If the Senate doesn`t repair itself we are in deep trouble in this country.