Patrick Leahy

It has caused the steepest decline in North American wildlife in the past century and has killed more than 1 million bats in the last 4 years.

I am glad to see in the budget request that you put us on track to fully fund the LWCF by 2014.

I want to commend Google again for announcing that they plan to stop censoring their Chinese search engine.

I want to commend these three companies for their extraordinary leadership in promoting Internet freedom.

Thanks to the opposition from the U.S. Government and companies, the Chinese Government eventually backed down.

The last 2 years have demonstrated that that is simply not true.

The fundamental question here is not whether these were shoddy legal memos. They were shoddy legal memos. Everybody knows that.... It failed to cite significant case law; it twisted the plain meaning of statutes. The legal memoranda were…

The fundamental question here is not whether these were shoddy legal memos. They were shoddy legal memos. Everybody knows that.... It failed to cite significant case law; it twisted the plain meaning of statutes. The legal memoranda were…

The fundamental question here is not whether these were shoddy legal memos. They were shoddy legal memos. Everybody knows that.... It failed to cite significant case law; it twisted the plain meaning of statutes. The legal memoranda were…

Mr. Comey also said that the Attorney General, who is now Alberto Gonzales, was under great pressure from the Vice President to issue these memos.

Can you imagine how we would react if we heard the head of another country's government make such an order? There would be total outrage expressed by people from the right to the left in this country.

Do you know anything offhand in the law that would stop a subsequent President from just saying we are no longer following that Executive order?

That is not the way this should operate. It should not operate that way in any administration.

Is the DOJ website now makes available to the public a number of withdrawn OLC opinions. Is that the full set?

They have been deleted. They have disappeared. We all know they have disappeared.

I can confirm to you that seven of the eight OLC opinions referenced in the OPR report have, in fact, been formally withdrawn.

I would just note that everybody in this room is a guest.

We must resist the temptation to criminalize policy differences and good-faith differences on legal matters.

Prosecuting the former administration's lawyers might be popular with some of the President's most left-wing supporters, but I am confident that such prosecutions would threaten the professional integrity of Government lawyers.

I actually filmed it in here, but he and I started out as the two most junior members of the Senate Agriculture Committee.

I hope we do not have to wait that long this time, and I would hope that what you find you will report to this Committee, report to me and to Senator Sessions what you find.

I want to make sure that no future administration--I do not care whether it is of my party or the other party--makes such mistakes.

I see his complicity in offering flimsy legal advice to justify the White House actions.

I just feel very strongly about the integrity of the Department of Justice.

I have a great deal of respect for OPR. I have had a great deal of respect for it in Republican administrations and Democratic administrations.