The 'FISA Amendments Act' would gut the oversight system established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which subjected domestic spying to review by a special intelligence court.

In campaigns, promises are usually treated skeptically. Past positions are viewed as the one reliable way to gauge a candidate's instincts.

Honestly, anchoring the news on a nightly basis is the hardest job I've ever taken on.

It always rankled me - in law school and the legal profession - when lawyers would speak to each other in their own exclusive language.

The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.

I'm in the government to make sure that if there's an opportunity to make peace, it won't be missed.

Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government is to blame.

Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?