Russ Feingold

I emphasize enemy combatants must be questioned to the fullest by the intelligence community before--if they are Mirandized, before they are Mirandized and given an attorney.

If we are to stay ahead of al Qaeda, we must respond by improving our intelligence capabilities and developing better informed and more comprehensive counterterrorism strategies.

In my view, disclaimer and disclosure rules stand on firm constitutional footing.

As members and witnesses are aware, this will be my last annual worldwide threat hearing, as I intend to depart from the Senate upon the completion of the 111th Congress.

We need to ensure that the voices of everyday Americans are not drowned out by corporate interests.

This terrible decision deserves as robust a response as possible. Nothing less than the future of our democracy is at stake.

Until we integrate the intelligence community with the ways we openly gather information, radicalization, I think, we'll keep being one step behind al-Qa'ida.

Five votes is not a license for vengeance. Five votes is also not a license to do anything that you want to do.

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the attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day has shined a spotlight squarely, if belatedly, on Yemen. I cannot overstate the importance of denying al-Qaida safe havens in Yemen and countries like it, an issue on which I have…

I have given substantial deference to executive branch nominations made by Presidents of both parties. That deference is greatest when the nomination is for a position closest to the President, such as a position in the Cabinet, and at its…

I had some concerns with the concept of a Special Fiscal Commission. I don't think we should be outsourcing the job that we should be doing.

If we are going to start getting our deficits under control, we have got to find some places where more cuts could be made.

I have expanded on this concept for another provision of the bill that I have introduced, so that all earmarks across all Federal agencies would be rescinded if 90 percent of the funding remained unobligated after a decade.

I was pleased that the Administration included a significant investment of $8 billion in passenger rail as a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Of course, I was particularly proud to support Wisconsin's successful $822 million application to the program that will extend passenger rail service from Milwaukee to Madison.

I am also pleased to see some of the proposed spending cuts in the budget, including a proposal to terminate the Rail Line Relocation Program.

Very good. And then similarly, during reauthorization, would you oppose the special no-year contract authority and obligation limitation that means that these earmarks never expire?

I am concerned that the funding for capital purchases of buses and bus facilities under the Section 5039 program is typically completely earmarked.

During reauthorization of the highway bill, would you support creating a formula or competitive program to replace the current system?

I share your frustration at the consistent failure of Congress to confront our long-term budget problems.

I am pleased to introduce legislation establishing a temporary jobs tax credit to help businesses expand their payroll here in the U.S. by hiring more employees, expanding work hours, or raising pay. The measure is modeled on a proposal by…

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It is not clear to me that the Afghan and Pakistani Governments are pursuing the political solutions that are the best way to stabilize the situation.

I am not convinced that there is a military solution to the instability in Afghanistan and the region.