The bill would prohibit the director from being required to testify on views that he or she does not agree with.
Although the NYPD did not send a representative to testify, their views regarding oversight are well-known.
No student had testified about a viewing party, he noted, "because one never occurred".
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut and the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, before which Ms. Napolitano testified on Wednesday, views the draft legislation as an improvement over existing law, as does its ranking Republican, Susan Collins of Maine.
One of Japan's highest wartime officials, Kido Koichi, later testified that in his view the August surrender prevented 20 million Japanese casualties.
Cabrinović, though, testified that the political views that motivated him to kill Franz Ferdinand were views held in the circles he traveled in within Serbia.
He also instructed the jury to "draw no inference either way from the fact that no witnesses have testified as to their views on this subject".
Some librarians testified that what patrons viewed was their own business, so that a man looking at pornography on a reference area terminal in Multnomah County, in Oregon, was asked only to move to a more private location, for example.
In particular, the city lawyers wanted Smith to testify about his view that the stop-and-frisk policy was an important factor in what they termed "the historic crime decline achieved by New York City".
If Bunny's section, titled "Whose Angel Child," is one of Maxwell's most brilliant transformations of memory, the next two, told from well beyond Bunny's point of view, testify to the author's powers of imagination.
