I am pleased today to introduce to the Committee an outstanding nominee to fill the vacancy on the U.S. District Court in Utah.

I strongly recommend her swift and unanimous confirmation and I just want her to know that we are extremely proud of her.

The President has stated a need to pass additional legislative reform, and I support that.

Yes, I believe that there can, and should, be additional improvements to our legislation--to our patent system through legislation.

This is a good day for Utah, a good day for the Federal judiciary.

It has been my view, or, at least, a fear of mine, that there might be a natural tendency in any trial court for a judge to engage in what I sometimes refer to as trial by attrition.

I believe the U.S. industry could strongly benefit from having Federal trade secret law in place.

I commend each of you and I feel you are going to make very good judges on the district court bench.

For me, this shouldn't be a numbers game. The focus should be on properly issued, high-quality patents.

Section 285 of the Patent Act was Congress' attempt to deter bad behavior in patent litigation.

I have every confidence you'll be one of the best judges in the country.

As Chairman of the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force, I've been working with colleagues and stakeholders to develop an innovation agenda for the 114th Congress.

We must remain vigilant in protecting our Nation's critical infrastructure from cyber attacks.

I do believe that we still need legislative reform.

You appeared to be aware about an order that Attorney General Holder issued just about a week and a half or two weeks ago--I believe it was on January 16--restricting that.

I think that Mr. Pompeo's legislation rightly encourages the FDA to move forward on that issue, and give clarity that issue, and I think that is important.

I think it really hurts your case rather than helps it when the President does not obey the rule of law.

our liberty requires that Government actually obeys the limits on its power including the separation of powers.