Speech #1090140107

There were objections raised by some members of the committee about calling in the telephone companies. Suggestions were made by other members of the committee about calling in other members of the administration. Since we were in the middle of the debate on immigration. we held a very brief meeting in cramped circumstances in the Presidents Room off the Senate floor. It was decided to defer the hearing with the telephone companies by 1 week to give the committee an opportunity on June 6. the same date we had previously scheduled a hearing. to consider these Issues and decide them at greater length. An interesting suggestion was made by one of the members of the committeethat in the past. when that member of the Judiciary Committee was on the Intelligence Committee. he had called for a secret session of the full Senate to discuss matters which had been disclosed to him in the Intelligence Committee which he was barred from saying publicly.