Jim Sensenbrenner

I would like to thank each of the witnesses for very excellent testimony.

This is a vast undertaking, and we are operating under somewhat of a time limit because the life of task forces are supposed to be 6 months.

There are no due process protections in place because the recipient of the FISA warrant can't tell what records he's turned over.

How can Section 215 be utilized to scoop up the phone records of American citizens who are not in communication with a foreigner?

I had a hand in drafting, requires that the business records FISA warrants, or orders, be directed solely at foreigners.

Do you know if their names and whatever relevant data we know of has been entered in the State Department watch list?

Now, the public summary of your audit indicates that a U.S. Marshals inspector was concerned that a witness was collecting information from militant Muslim groups, but that information was not being shared with the FBI for at least 2…

It is time to welcome young children who can feel pain into the human family, and this bill at least will do just that.

Well, Congress ignored the select committee's recommendations, passed IRCA. Father Hesburgh was right and Ronald Reagan was wrong.

The fear that I have is that unless we effectively control illegal immigration now, we will be slowly closing the door to legal immigration.

I think this is our last best chance to get it right, and we better get it right this time.

I think that's a big problem for companies who are really trying to wrestle with how does a good faith exception apply to us if we repeatedly have people that evade the existing E-Verify system.

Well, it would make the existing workforce effectively indentured servants.

I think all of us here, and I certainly subscribe to that, say that our current immigration system is broke.

I thank the gentleman from Georgia for yielding. I sponsored this legislation to improve the ability to protect the United States from terrorist attacks, including attacks using weapons of mass destruction or attacks involving ships and…

I think what we can learn is to articulate, I hope, some of the things that we believe should be in any bill, which is use limitations, collection only for a particular purpose, not converting it to other purposes, discarding it when it is…

That is why I have cosponsored the 'Preserving American Privacy Act of 2013,' a bill sponsored by Representative Ted Poe of Texas and Representative Zoe Lofgren of California.

I would like to try to pin down who authorized the subpoenas for the AP.

I am a cosponsor this bill, introduced by Congressman Jason Chaffetz to require the government to obtain a warrant based on probable cause to compel cell phone companies to disclose the location information of their customers.

It's important that this body step in and clarify the law so that everyone understands what their rights are.

We must restore the private property rights protections that were erased from the Constitution by the Kelo decision.

I have been able to bring to the attention of the public where I think there is wasteful and duplicative spending.

This has been one of the more substantive hearings that I think we have had in trying to get to the bottom of all of this.

There is no question the Department of Justice is having trouble managing these grants effectively.

Okay. Well, we have got four other prisons that are sitting empty that apparently are not as high a priority. Does the Bureau of Prisons intend to sell them?