That is why last week, together with Senators Whitehouse, Alexander and Corker, I introduced the Songwriter Equity Act to remove this evidentiary barrier.

Last June, Senator Whitehouse and I wrote to Attorney General Holder about the consent decrees that govern ASCAP's and BMI's licensing practices.

I think that, yes, these do seem like common sense asks.

Those principles were efficiency, fairness, and simplicity.

I think that doing major tax reform, tearing the tax system out by its roots and starting from scratch, has an enormous amount of attraction.

I think someday we are going to have to deal with it.

I want to welcome everyone to today's hearing to discuss simplification of the tax code.

I think my time is up, Mr. Chairman.

It's time for this Director and this Secretary to take some definitive, conclusive action and fix the problem.

If you are going to go consume alcohol and then show up at the White House, disturb a crime scene, get out of here.

The agents' impaired judgment resulted in them driving into a crime scene inches from what the rest of the Secret Service was treating as a potential explosive device.

Now that the facts are in, it is time for accountability.

U.S. SECRET SERVICE: ACCOUNTABILITY FOR MARCH 4, 2015 INCIDENT

one of the first acts you would undertake as Secretary would be to review the President's current strategy to defend the nation from an ISIS threat.

Do either of you believe that a meeting with a client in a foreign country presents an urgent humanitarian reason or a significant benefit to the American public?

Right. That is the whole concept of advanced parole, at least what I am talking about, is being told prior to your departure you leave, you come back, you will be treated as parole.

The government does not have unlimited power under the immigration code to grant parole, does it?

USCIS, if I am not mistaken, treats advanced parole as parole for purposes relevant to adjustment of status.