There unquestionably is a significant problem with counterfeiting and piracy.

I hope, if confirmed for this job, to be able to work with the new players.

I was able to participate in the historic nomination of the first Latina appointed to the Supreme Court.

I would like to keep it that way.

I would like to extend a special welcome to my distinguished colleague Senator Boxer.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Our country is experiencing the highest national unemployment rates in three decades.

Clearwater County, for example, had an average unemployment rate of over 19 percent in the first 5 months of 2009.

I fully support Chairman Leahy's recent provision that will make the EB-5 Regional Center Program permanent.

I would like to thank both you and the Ranking Member, Senator Sessions, for encouraging making this program permanent.

I just want to thank you all and I will follow up with Professor Yale-Loehr on the Minnesota contact.

If the panel is meeting as a panel, whether it is the five or the four, and if the meetings are recorded, it seems to me that they could be transcribed.

I agree it is a long day, but you have all been very responsive and we appreciate the great information that you have made available to us.

It just seems to me odd that if the commitment is transparency that we wouldn't be able to actually receive those hearings because votes are made in those meetings.

the fact that 95.1 percent of utility companies had experienced copper theft in the past year; that 86.6 percent of utility companies had a process in place to track incidents of copper theft; and yet there were more than 50,000…

I look forward to working with him in the months and years ahead to make sure that our veterans have the highest possible level of care and quality-of-life.

Thank you. Do you want to end just by saying why you think this Federal legislation is so important?

I was thinking for me, then having this hearing and having worked on this bill, some of this was new to me.