Jim Sensenbrenner

I think whether the Justice Department is efficiently using its resources or not is a constitutional function of oversight.

Well, you know, are there different strokes for different folks? We activate four prisons, but we do not have the activation money for a prison in the President's home State, which the Federal Government bought despite the Congress'…

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, or ECPA, is complicated, outdated, and largely unconstitutional.

Let me say that to amend ECPA, we are going to need to have a balancing act, which means that neither law enforcement nor the service community are going to get everything they want.

The 1986 law governing the Internet is like having a national highway policy drafted in the 19th century.

I would hope that the Justice Department, when they come back next time to talk about this subject, can anticipate the questions and have an answer.

If the gentleman will yield, I am sure as this debate goes on, we will be getting a lot of advice from a lot of different sources, some of which will be trying to twist the law in favor of somebody or another. So stay tuned.

ECPA is complicated, outdated, and largely unconstitutional.

I think the different standards between a warrant and a subpoena is outdated and probably unconstitutional.

Let me say that to amend ECPA, we are going to need to have a balancing act, which means that neither law enforcement nor the service community are going to get everything they want.

The role of the Internet and electronic communications in our daily lives is vastly different now.

I think the different standards between a warrant and a subpoena is outdated and probably unconstitutional.

We are not meeting here because we are worried about individuals breaching terms of service.

I want to join the Chairman in welcoming our witnesses, and I look forward to their testimony.

I think we are going to be talking about this issue a lot more as legislation is developed. I disagree with that conclusion.

So I would like to thank all of the witnesses for appearing today, for being brief in the answers to your questions so that we Republicans can go listen to what the President has to say.

By limiting fees, or eliminating contingency fees, or cutting off other sources of funding to allow individuals to hold their own in a case against corporations with seemingly endless resources, many of the proposals we will hear will, in…

The time of the gentleman has expired, and I agree with the last point that the gentleman from Michigan has made since the Internet is completely internationalized and knows no boundaries, either for doing good or breaking the law.

This Committee has heard a lot of testimony on mandatory minimums. They have been found to waste the taxpayers' money, do nothing about crime, and often result in sentences that are violative of common sense.

As in every area of crime policy, public safety demands that we engage in level-headed efforts to identify and implement comprehensive evidence-based solutions, and I hope we can do that in this case.

The time of the gentleman has expired.

I applaud the President's resolve to work with industry to better resolve our critical infrastructure.

I think this Congress should act.

I suppose we could have sent an army of inspectors armed with tickets books to enforce the law, but I am not sure how Ms. Milito's organization would feel about that.

I raised concerns about one provision in the proposed law, and that was the mandatory minimum sentencing for certain crimes of damaging political critical infrastructure computers.