Patrick Leahy

Let me go to Director Nisbet. You mentioned if spring ever comes.

I commend the guidelines. As I said before, they restore the presumption of openness.

And I had indicated I agree with that, because we know we are dealing with something that even with the expertise of the four of you here, you could not tell me specifically what would be the greatest threat you might face 18 months from…

Unless it is bipartisan, it is not going to go anywhere.

A one-size-fits-all approach will not work, or at least will not work for everybody.

We are facing threats to our privacy and security unlike any time before in our Nation's history.

We have got a major problem we have to deal with, and it is going to take cooperation.

Public confidence is crucial to our economy.

Safeguarding American consumers and businesses from data breaches and cyber crime has been a priority of this Committee since 2005.

I hope in this particular one we can get some good bipartisan support responding to it.

So you had all your systems in place, but you found out about it from the Department of Justice.

I have worked closely with Members on both sides of the aisle to advance meaningful data privacy legislation.

I hope you will join me in the view, that the President remains completely committed to end gun violence in this country.

I want to thank you and the Department of Justice for really over these past years viewing these legal issues on their merits, on their legal merits, putting politics aside.

I just think it is absolutely outrageous.

The Orwellian aspect of it I find very chilling.

We are all working together to try to get something that not only makes sense but can pass.

Please do, because you have broad bipartisan support across the political spectrum to find our way out of this.

I will continue to push for passage of my USA FREEDOM Act, as well as legislation to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

I applaud the President's apparent determination to use his authority more aggressively and more vigorously in areas that matter so much to the well-being of the American people.

Last, and I apologize to Senator Grassley, but we talked about the Federal prison population--this is something of concern to many of us here--has grown by more than 500 percent in the last 30 years.

I thank him for his service and restoring Americans' faith in a Department that has in the past at times lost sight of its core mission.

The all one-size-fits-all we have realized, one, it does not make us safer; two, it does not deter crime; but, three, it means we are spending a huge amount of money on things that do not make us better.

I recently joined with Representative Sensenbrenner to introduce the bipartisan Voting Rights Amendment Act.

I am concerned about the nature of our security cooperation with Uzbekistan and strongly support the assistance conditions outlined in section 7076 of the FY14 appropriations law related to human rights, the establishment of a multiparty…