Honorable Pat Roberts
United States Senator, Kansas, Republican
Senator Roberts was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1980 to 1996. He chairs the Select Committee on Intelligence and is a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. The following is from a February 3, 2006, letter from Senator Roberts, as Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (PA-R) and Ranking Minority Member Patrick J. Leahy (VT-D). Despite legal analysis by some critics, I am confident that the President retains the constitutional authority to conduct "warrantless" electronic surveillance within…
