Section 14 of the bill, which has been before the Senate for the last week or more, prevents patenting of tax law. It provides that a strategy that relies on the tax law to reduce, to avoid, or to defer tax liability cannot be novel or…

Madam President, I understand there are questions about what the tax strategies portion of the bill does and who it impacts. So I want to take a few minutes to address those questions. In simple terms, a tax strategy is any method for…

Mr. President, today I am pleased to join with Senators Klobuchar and Franken to reintroduce the Federal Response to Eliminating Eating Disorders Act, or the FREED Act. The FREED Act is a comprehensive legislative effort to confront eating…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is an honor and a privilege to address you here on the floor of the House. And I would say after listening to the presentation of my colleague from Illinois, it's been a little while since I've heard that; and…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 7 o'clock and 56 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, March 3, 2011, at 10 a.m…

Madam President, reserving the right to object, and I will not object, I wish to say as manager of my side of the aisle that we support this. We think both of these amendments are good amendments and that we ought to move forward. I…

Madam President, supporting what the chairman has just said, outside of the fact that there might be one or two controversial nongermane amendments to this legislation, we have to look at the underlying product. The underlying product is…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to address the Senate as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Iowa is recognized.

I thank the Chair. (The remarks of Mr. Grassley pertaining to the introduction of S. 454 are printed in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions.'')

Madam President, I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.

Mr. President, earlier today the Finance Committee held a hearing to discuss the serious problems of fraud in Medicare and Medicaid. Over the last 9 years, the Finance Committee has held more than 20 oversight hearings dealing with…

I ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be equally charged to both sides. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

the tension between confidentiality and whatever is needed by the investigators, it should be the narrowest access to information that serves their purposes

Thank you, Madam Chairman, for holding this very important hearing. More importantly, thank you for your personal involvement in this issue.

Madam President, I would like to express my strong support for Senator Coburn's proposal to end Patent and Trademark Office fee diversion. It is a commonsense, entrepreneur friendly solution to many of the problems plaguing the Patent and…

The rights affirmed in the cases from Griswold . . . to Lawrence enjoy widespread support and acceptance.

I did not think I would have time for a last question, but this involves Federal judges making tax return information available to law enforcement in a parental abduction case if requested.

Thank you very much.