It is crucial to recognize the contribution of Office of the DNI, NCTC, and DHS for making our homeland as secure as it is.

I understand that they are going to try to spend us into oblivion with costs, that they are going to have us try to come up with every contingency to try to protect ourselves, which is naturally going to impinge, Congressman, on the civil…

powerful forces that are at work in this country to deprecate the value of the judicial forum and its role in the American system of government.

I hope that as each of you take your oath... you will bear in mind the importance of the courtrooms.

Justice Coleman has devoted her legal career to public service.

Dick Durbin, he came out of one of those meetings this morning. And he said we all just have to catch our breath. Let's just hold on.

I hope my Senate colleagues will consider and confirm Justice Coleman and Gary Feinerman as quickly as possible.

I recommended these names to President Obama, and we are fortunate that such outstanding individuals are willing to serve on the Federal bench.

the jury box stands more and more starkly as an institution of American government that is beyond their reach.

Look, we have missed some things. We have dropped the ball. We have to tighten this ship.

Well, here's one thing I know, and I just want to make sure that this is off the table. The Senate certainly shouldn't try to jam anything through until Scott Brown is seated. The people of Massachusetts spoke. He's got to be part of that…

I want to know why we are spending $20 million and we lost.

He has been president for a year now, why is the unemployment rate going up? His foreclosure program doesn't seem to be working for me. Is all of that fair? Maybe not. But when you're the President of the United States, you get the blame.

The entire world stands with the Government and the people of Haiti.

He said, 'From the bottom of my heart and on behalf of the people of Haiti, thank you, thank you, thank you.'

We have an opportunity to make America a better Nation.

My commitment is to recover every single dime the American people are owed.

This represents the biggest step towards deficit reduction in years.