04/21/2010
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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..."
"I worked with Senator Specter and we were able to expand public transparency in congressional oversight--but in the end several important checks and balances were not included in the final version."
"They didn't follow the statute. It is one thing to talk about oversight and all that and the reauthorization, but the statute is not followed and it is a concern."
"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."