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

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

I have known Jill Parrish for a long time--Justice Parrish. I have nothing but the best respect for her and her ability and capacity to be a district court judge.

I know her personally, I know her family, I know what a great human being she is.

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

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

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

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

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.

``. . . the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;--the person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be…

I thank my dear friend from Missouri for being so kind and thoughtful to me and the Senate. I appreciate our friendship and the leadership he provides in this body.

I will make one more statement. There is enough evidence of criminal conduct there--I am not accusing her but, on the other hand, she was the authority there.

I voted for this fine woman coming out of the committee, but there since have arisen all kinds of problems concerning perhaps criminal problems at the Social Security----

I was a cosponsor of this amendment to the highway bill in the Finance Committee and understand the importance of equalizing the tax rate between LNG and propane and diesel fuel. Unfortunately, we cannot add this amendment that I support…

As my colleague from Washington has so ably noted, in areas where large tracts of land are part of the National Forest System, local school districts have relied in the past on timber harvesting receipts, shared with local governments, as…

I want to thank Mr. O'Rourke for his passion on this issue. He is a fine gentleman to work with on these types of issues and others. I am happy to serve with him on both Homeland Security and in this body. I thank him for his good work…