Patrick Leahy: “If I can take a chairman's prerogative here to praise Senator Durbin, who has been a----”

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.

I can say with absolute certainty that the proposed rules directly conflict with the legislation on a variety of matters, especially on provisions that limit access to the PTAB.

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

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