04/26/2010
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"We had a former longest serving member of this committee, the late Senator Ted Kennedy was eight or nine or ten times refused to go on one of the, an airplane or a flight he had been taking for 40 yea..."
"We all want to be safe. We all want to catch criminals. That is not the issue."
"I don't believe that subsequent events have proven that there have been any abuses of the Act to date."
"In the 2006 USA Patriot Act Reauthorization, we required, and I helped write this, the Attorney General to adopt procedures to minimize retention and improper dissemination of private information."