Competitive senate races, you personally sent up a flare to republican donors. To try to raise more money for the effort to keep the majority. Can you tell me a little bit what senator mcconnell what i did was to call attention around the country, to the fact that this group existed. It was obviously operated by people that i have known well for years. And i knew what their purpose was because they announced it. Their purpose was to try to help us keep the republican senate. So sure, i praise them and made sure everybody was aware of their existence. What was the key moment . Senator mcconnell i dont know if there was a key moment. I recommended that this group be set up, which is about all i could do legally. Representatives were set up a couple of years ago because i felt like there was no outside group that was looking out for us like the Senate Majority pac was looking out for the democrats. There are a lot of entrepreneurs on the right. Group you have already about and written abo
Judiciary committee, and we had some very rancorous debate within our own party, behind closed doors, out in the committee room, here on the floor over the patriot act. Over the extension of power under the foreign Intelligence Surveillance courts. I was very concerned, even though we had a republican administration, and president that i liked and respected, george w. Bush, smarter, wittier than people gave him credit for, a good decent man, but we have to consider the possibilities, and we have to be specific in our laws, and when we debated these changes before the Judiciary Committee back in the 109th congress, when i was a freshman, there were people, my democratic friends across the other side of the aisle, that were very concerned about an abuse of power that might be occasioned if we dont tighten up the patriot act. Anal enough, i read the bill as it existed, i read the law as it existed, i was pushing for some things to be changed, and it did cause me of concern that the title
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