Mr. Chairman, thank you for convening today's very important hearing on copyright licensing in a digital age.

I want to thank you for holding this hearing, and I am conflicted because I am in between Homeland Security, but this is very important to me.

I would like to invite you to the region. I welcome what you are doing in the Gulf region with the Secretary of HUD.

The housing issue is really at a crisis. We have got the manufactured housing on the ground all ready to go and can't move and people don't have housing.

There must be arrangements made for the International Community to assist people.

what the government is doing right now could eventually fuel further support of the antigovernment forces rather than help reconciliation

first of all, stop dropping rockets and shells on the heads of the Tamils, the very Tamils that it is claiming to be liberating

If you don't take any action, if there is no accountability, it sends a totally opposite message, which is that you may operate with impunity.

That can be documented, that aid is getting through?

the most urgent humanitarian need right now in the near term, in the next, literally the next couple of months?

I guess one area of questioning I wanted to get into was the question of what can we expect in terms of credible negotiations leading to a political settlement.

We may get back to more of these questions with regard to the camps.

The American Embassy in Colombo is deeply concerned about these attacks on journalists and has often acted in their interest.

You said that access is restricted. I want to ask you if you can describe if there is a total prohibition on any humanitarian aid coming in, or is it limited, or is it ad hoc depending on what time period you are talking about?

I think if he wanted these incidents to stop, he could make them stop tomorrow.

President Obama signed into law the Children's Health Insurance Bill. Great achievement.

You've been so good to bring us together. You've labored in this vineyard a long time.

Senator Mikulski led the way to pass a Lilly Ledbetter Act, a tremendous achievement for those who are victims of discrimination.