The issue though is each one of us is our own privacy.

Also the bill I introduced with Senators Cardin and Kaufman include new audits on Section 215 orders for tangible things in the use of national security letters--trace devices.

I also know the President's and the Attorney General's emphasis on accountability and checks and balances and their willingness to consider additional ideas.

I don't believe that subsequent events have proven that there have been any abuses of the Act to date.

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 years back to Boston because he somehow is…

I would think as technology advances and more and more personal information is available, isn't it reasonable to require the government to have to at least prove the things that it is seeking are relevant in terrorism investigation and…

I press hard to shine a light on the misuse, there has been a misuse to the State Secret privilege.

I worked to ensure that the USA Patriot Act included oversight.

What happens if those standards are relaxed? What happens if the label no longer means what it means today?

In New England, we have a situation, as Senator Sanders has pointed out, where one distributor is responsible for the purchase of more than 70 percent of Northeast dairy production.

When I became Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee I was sitting in a room for a day, having the whole Federal order pricing explained to me. I was then committed to an asylum for several months to recover.

Would the Department consider extending the current price levels beyond October?

The matter of antitrust, being pursued by Senator Leahy and Senator Sanders, Ms. Varney and Dr. Glauber, is of vital importance to our industry.

I remember all the pressure we got from the administration in 2002 to strip out the competition title which we had put into the Farm Bill of 2002.

The dairy price supports are going to expire at the end of October, next month.

Here in Vermont, the dairy industry is a pillar of our State's economy and our landscape, but also our culture.

I want to thank Representative Peter Welch, who was unable to be here. He's leading the charge in the dairy crisis in the House.

One of your major concerns is that cheese prices are below the support price for much of the year, but no product was removed from the marketplace.

I want to build a hearing to let policymakers in Congress and the Federal agencies hear directly from the farmers.

I thank everybody for being here.

Do they have a quota system?

I think one of my proudest achievements in the Senate was when I wrote the Organic Foods Production Act back in 1990.

He demonstrated a real crisis. He actually took some very quick steps and he responded.

It has been easy for many Americans to take American dairy farmers for granted.

all antitrust legislation comes before the Judiciary Committee.