Jim Sensenbrenner

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

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.

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.

I oppose any efforts, including this bill, that invite the courts to deviate from the sound procedures they currently follow to protect vital national security information.

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.

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.

Maybe I should compliment you as it is starting to sound like Justice Scalia, who doesn't think that anything we say over here makes any difference when a matter gets in court.

I think not, because, as I said in my opening remarks, you have got--don't have a consistent body of law with a consistent standard now.

Would you be in favor of having a statutory limit on attorneys' fees?

I regret to say that, when Congress passed the legislation addressing liability concerns in September of 2001, I warned my colleagues that failing to comprehensively address the unprecedented liability issues raised by the 9/11 attacks…

But isn't a life a life a life, and a broken arm a broken arm a broken arm?

I think that the American public's memory has been dulled somewhat.

We must never forget that.

Let me ask you a question, and it goes to the whole issue of attorneys' fees.

That organization is called ACORN, and its actions cry out for investigation by this Committee.

The legitimacy of our elected leaders depends upon the legitimacy of our election process.

The time has come for Congress to pass an amendment to the Constitution that would require all Senate vacancies to be filled by special election.

Currently, the Constitution's Seventeenth Amendment provides for the popular election of Senators, but it provides an exception in which States can allow Governors to appoint Senators to fill vacancies until a special election is held.

I'm going to aim my cannon right between your eyes, Mr. Newberry.

I may be wrong on that, but I think that most of the Members of the Committee have that impression.

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