According to the 2010 Federal Trade Commission report entitled 'Pay For Delay: How Drug Companies Payoffs Cost Consumers Billions,' these settlements cost consumers approximately $35 billion over 10 years.

In my opinion, they only end up keeping drug costs artificially high for consumers and the taxpaying public.

This is a very important hearing that we're having to learn more about pay-for-delay agreements.

I worked hard to make sure that this notice and filing provision was included in that legislation.

I think they harm drug competition.

The reality is that these deals between brand-name and generic pharmaceutical companies delay the entry of generic medicines into the marketplace.

We should be doing all we can to see that the American consumer has access to lower-priced drugs.

The National Labor Relations Board is the guardian of these fundamental rights.

Today's nominees will help us restore the Board to its full strength and capacity.

I hope that this agreement brings a new beginning for the Board so that we can ratchet down the political rhetoric.

Confirming these nominees is vitally important because in the absence of Senate action, the Board will lose a quorum in August and will be effectively forced to shut down.

That's why we need a strong NLRB.

I think that God does give human beings the freedom to create their own borders and to establish their own laws.

Would you characterize your life living here in the United States as living in the shadows?

We don't have a bill before us, ladies and gentlemen. And so we can't look at the language of a bill and take a position on that language.

For everyone that is a valedictorian there are another hundred out there who weigh 130 pounds and have calves the size of cantaloupes because they've been hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.

All of us have sympathy for children who are brought here without knowledge that they were breaking the law.

We can honor the rule of law, secure our borders and chart a just and compassionate way forward for the millions of other undocumented immigrants living peacefully and productively in our midst.