How we address energy policy in the future is going to be a critical part of getting this economy moving again.

We've got to talk to the [Congressional Budget Office] about scoring on [additional funding provided to IRS]. Clearly there's a return on that money.

Well, we were just all wanted to gather in the garage for an evening of bonding and we did that very effectively.

It's not whether or not the minor can have an abortion, the minor can always go on forward and have an abortion under these circumstances.

Even senators can be lucky.

Well, I certainly agree that this is a core issue for the vitality of our economy and our competitiveness as a Nation, protection of intellectual property which energizes the creation of intellectual property, which is where we as a Nation…

So this is at the essence of us as a culture.

This is a fairly significant report and fairly long, also. And it is really a blueprint for how we propose to address what is one of the critical needs of the world.

I have always found Senate hearings to be fairly stilted and I wanted to have more of a discussion.

And I now turn to our very own Senator Judd Gregg to begin the official U.S. Senate hearing.

the Appropriations Committee mirrors the authorizing committees, but has the responsibility for allocating and distributing funds.

And that is why the Commission was set up and was asked to put this report forward, because there was a belief that we needed to focus on oceans.

the Commission report is actually an outgrowth of very much needed legislation which was introduced and championed by my ranking member, Senator Fritz Hollings from South Carolina.

Dick Cheney has emerged from his bunker to engage in partisan attacks, false and distorted attacks.

Are we going to pursue legal remedies to get recovery of, what is it, about $400 million?

I have serious reservations about putting this much money, this quickly, into the Patent and Trademark Office.

Today, we do not have that. Unfortunately, our borders are porous. Our management of those borders is inefficient and the lines of authority are overlapping and confusing.

I do think that there is a role for an individual who has the authority of the homeland security portfolio.