A study conducted by The Elections Center, a nonpartisan organization representing the Nation's election officials, has shown that expedited special elections can be conducted within a 45-day time frame.

Today it appears the Obama administration is increasingly retreating to this failed approach.

What happened to those 500 that left? I heard my friend from Texas talk about how 71 have returned to the battlefield.

Between 1993 and 2001, this country took the approach of prosecuting terrorism in courtrooms as criminal defendants rather than fighting them on the battlefield as foreign enemies.

And this was the guy that was released from GTMO to the Afghans because of, quote, world pressure, unquote, that was ginned up by people who disagree with the American policy in fighting terrorism. Am I right on that?

What we are hearing today is a continuation of the assault by the American political left on the entire institution of Guantanamo Bay and the people who have been sent to Guantanamo Bay.

The concern that I have is that there has been a track record of people who have been released from Guantanamo going back home and continuing their battled ways.

I think that we're better off moving to a different venue.

I know I took the opportunity to express some feelings that the Administration has been hypocritical in some of the attacks that it made on the previous Administration.

Currently we do have a body of law with a substantial deference standard that is in the current law that this legislation repeals and does not substitute another standard and basically makes this a matter of judicial discretion.

What is important here, I think, is for all of us to realize that truth and time travel on the same road and that truth always has the last word.