mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i ask unanimou consent tha the judiciary committee be discharged from further consideration of senate resolution 245 and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding office the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolutio 245 recognizing september 11 as a national day of service and rembrance. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed with the measure. mr. whitehouse: i ask unanimous consent that an amendment to theesolution which is at the desk be agreed to, the resolution as amended be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, that an amendment to the title which is at t desk be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, that any statements related to the resolutione placed i the record at the appropriate place as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. mrwhitehouse: m presadent, i ask unimous consent that the judiciary committee be d

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mr. chairm. chairman whitehouse, ranking member senator graham, chairman leahy, and distinguished members of the committee -- >> let me say one thing quickly because you are first witness. i would like to try to keep all of the witness statements her some of them are quite lengthy on paper, to five minutes. and saw some point witnesses are gointo start hearing this noise, which is your warning that the five minutes has run out and if you could please wrap it up. and if you asked into far beyond i will sply cut you off so everybody has a fair chance and so thathe senator to have a chance to engage in dialogue, which is the most helpful part of a hearing. >> i may go a minute or so over. thank you for inviting me to testify today. you have asked me to talk about the legal ethics of the torture and interrogation memos written by lawyers in the office in the office of legal counci based on the publicly available sources i have studied, i believe that the memos are an ethical train back. when a lawyer advises a client about what the law requires, there is one basic ethical obligation, to tell it stra

mr. lungren on this and of course i want to particularly acknowledge my colleague in the senate, shell don -- sheldon whitehouse for, for his leadership. i'm hoping this will take some of the burden off the u.s. attorney offices in this country and thereby i hope we'll see reciprocity in these other countries that they act expeditiously and i'd be happy to yield to my colleague. mr. poe: i thank the gentleman for yielding. as a former judge, sometimes bureaucracy gets in the way of justice because of the fact that there are so many entities involved. and stream lining the process in this case or in this legislation will allow foreign governments to help us on international organized crime rings, protect the dignity of the constitution as well. i do not expect that mr. lungren will be here, so i would yield back to the gentleman. mr. schiff: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i know if mr. lungren were here he'd make some unnecessarily ungracious remarks in my direction, they are reciprocated. i thank him for his work and, mr. speaker, i urge passage of the bill and yield back the balance of my time. the spe