U.S. State Attorneys General

As people are navigating their way to safety, there are lots of encounters with other agencies.

No, we need to be on the same page, because this is a really tough community-wide problem.

Good morning. This hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee will come to order.

Because the resources are getting actually less for a problem that defies easy solutions.

Are there not some very specific stressors that military personnel face that may--that would not be faced by the civilian population?

Because domestic violence knows no boundaries applied.

The key to the success in Iraq back in the period 2007, 2008, 2009 was getting Sunni Arab support.

Thank you. Mr. McDowell, you have testified that the antitrust laws would be adequate to protect the consumers.

Clearly consumers feel that net neutrality is important because all of us have heard from hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of our constituents who have said, make sure that we are not going to create an environment where they are going…

Do you see evidence that this kind of effort is working, that these tribal leaders that have been marginalized or excluded are now going to trust what we're doing?

What makes us believe that, when we train-and-equip them, that they will turn their attention to fighting ISIL?

You and the President have made a very strong case that ISIL, if left unchecked, will be a threat to Europe and to the United States.

Including alternative data such as utility, telecom, and rent helps consumers, lenders, and small businesses and the economy.

Well-functioning credit markets are the essential component of economic prosperity.

Government is the people's business, and every man, woman, and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

A free and democratic society requires government transparency and accountability.

Your report put forth a number of recommendations. I am particularly looking at Recommendations 17 to 23, and the VA has said that they will meet those recommendations by September 2015.

Can you talk a little bit more about how a system as vast as the VA can make cultural changes?

The revelations over wait times at the Department of Veterans Affairs and other systemic problems at the VA have severely shaken the trust that veterans, their families, and the general public should have in the VA health care system.

Just following up on the previous question, Mr. Griffin, would you agree that attribution of negligence as a result of delay in care as a causation of death is basically an adjudicatorial process that needs to be undertaken?

Thank you for giving us a fuller context in which the VA is undertaking these kinds of proceedings.

I care deeply about STEM education to our youngsters.

What it means is that all of our innovators, large and small now have easier access to both the educational content that we provide.

I appreciate that kind of perspective very much because I think that is the challenge in addressing the patent troll issues.