In the last Congress, Senator Leahy and I proposed legislation to deal with abusive patent practices directed at small businesses.

We are happy to have all of you here. This is a really, really important hearing.

I am committed to working to address any illegitimate instances of what some now refer to as 'reverse trolling.'

I have been working on a fee recovery provision to ensure that those who defend against abusive patent litigation and are awarded fees will actually get paid for them.

I wonder if that could be part of the million-person cohort, because the Utah population database is the world's largest repository of computerized family histories.

We'd love to be of great assistance to you.

This appears to me to be something that could well be a solution in search of a problem.

If that is the case, if you have got a number of states that do not have any regulations at all and you have got other states that do have regulations, none of which are inadequate, why not allow those states that have regulations that you…

Will this not inevitably extend the period of time that it takes to get regulatory approval, given that the rule contemplates a need to either get this approval from BLM as part of the APD process or outside the process separately?

I find the consequences of agenda-driven science offensive and pernicious.

I, for one, am not willing to give up every bit of privacy in the name of security.

I think one of the great questions that needs to be posed to our society and certainly our country as a whole is how to find the right balance between personal privacy and national security.

What I have a problem with is you tracking geolocation at will. And I think Americans have a reasonable right to privacy.

At every level a lack of accountability let the bureaucracy, or even the bully, win and our constituents, our friends, our neighbors, and our families paid with their livelihoods and their safety.

Our hearts and prayers and thoughts are with you and your neighbors and your friends and your community, the police officers.

I find it even more egregious when such science is financed by public dollars and advanced by federal agencies.

The Social Impact Partnership Act aims to achieve better outcomes for social service program beneficiaries and taxpayers.

I believe the President is entitled to have the people he wants working in this administration, so long as there are no ethical or significant issues in their background.