If you don't know where you are going you might end up someplace else.
Well, thank you. First, I want to thank Senator Coons for chairing this extremely important hearing.
I appreciate the Senator's concern about getting judges through.
The agreement was that there would be no filibusters of nominees unless there was some extraordinary circumstance.
I actually think that this Committee has done a very good job of moving judges along.
I regret it because I think that the agreement was a sensible outcome and served the Senate well.
We have 3.8 million ninth-graders in the country and only 230,000 of them choose a STEM degree in college.
We have 3 million jobs in this country that are available right now, 12 million unemployed people that haven't been educated.
It seems to me those are all important initiatives, but you are missing one that is very important, and that is the issue of distribution of...
I do not think we have a Medicare or a Medicaid problem. We have a health care problem.
Do we have a health care system? I was not aware that we had a health care system in America.
So is it a major concern to you that between 2009 and 2011 all--A-L-L--of the new income went to the top 1 percent?
At the end of the day, the United States spends almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other major nation.
Before we cut programs like Social Security or Medicare, do you not think it is a good idea that we look to corporate America for more tax r...
And do you think that marketplace health care system might be one of the reasons we spend almost twice as much as any other country on healt...
As even the Supreme Court pointed out in Citizens United, it is disclosure of donors' identities that allows citizens to hold corporations a...
As Senator McCain and I pointed out in a brief to the Supreme Court recently, this latter condition is a prescription for corruption.
Just yesterday in the Senate, Senators Rand Paul and Patrick Leahy introduced the Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013, S. 619.
