I am committed to ensuring that those with legitimate claims of asylum are not returned to persecution, particularly for technical deficiencies. If the time limit is not implemented fairly, I will be prepared to revisit this issue in a…

I want to thank Dianne Feinstein for recommending you in the first place.

We want it to work well. We want you to be pleased with what we do.

As you know, it is a comprehensive legislative package designed to end violence against women, and I am really pleased to work with my colleagues to make sure we get this reauthorized and that this Committee continues its support of these…

I remember back when I was Chairman of the Committee and we decided to do the Violence Against Women Act, it was not nearly as popular as it is today, but it is popular because of people like you, and many others, thousands of others…

A few years back, I was just appalled that some of these rape kits that had been collected sat idle for over 20 years.

I think we are all familiar with the horror stories of rape kits that contain good DNA samples sitting unprocessed in police evidence lockers.

The need for services for victims of domestic violence is especially acute in rural communities.

Although economic crisis does not cause domestic violence, it may increase existing violence in the home.

My home State of Utah is considered by some a rural State. Rural areas are especially hard hit by the current economic downturn.

I want to make sure that you have the resources and that you have our backing fully, because the work you are doing is really, really very important.

This bill would provide a federal match of 25 percent of the total cost of the project.

Now, it seems to me their efforts to abide by our laws would be completely discounted by amnesty or so-called pathway to citizenship.

I think of the immigrant community in my home State of Utah, those who have followed the law, waited their turn, got in line, sometimes even up to 20 years, in order to legally come to the United States.

This project is critically important to the citizens of Magna for a number of reasons.

I believe Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13, and Eugene Cernan, the commander of Apollo 17, said it best.

Both conservative and liberal legal scholars agree that a simple majority can change Senate rules at the beginning of the new Congress.

The Senate exercises its constitutional authority to determine its procedural rules, either implicitly or explicitly.