What's tragic about this is that it's not for lack of funding into the healthcare system that this takes place.

But that doesn't take away from the fundamental problem, that a great number of people who don't have access to health insurance have health consequences in their lives from not having health insurance.

While I applaud the administration's work, I think that we need to go further to raise awareness and work with both public and private sector partners to meet this threat. We cannot afford to continue operating with the massive digital…

Let me just say how proud I am to support the FY 2012 Intelligence Authorization Act. I appreciate the leadership of both Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Ruppersberger in crafting this bill. This has truly been a bipartisan effort of…

Madam Speaker, having spent the last several weeks in Rhode Island with families, small business owners, manufacturers and builders, people in my district are hurting, facing real struggles every single day. The jobs crisis is causing real…

Mr. President, I rise today to speak in favor of H.R. 1249, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. This is a vital piece of job-creating legislation and I urge my colleagues to support it. Before I turn to the merits of the bill, let me…

I congratulate you on the recommendation by my colleagues and your selection by the President of the United States as a candidate for a lifetime appointment on the U.S. Judiciary.

I wish you well as you go through the confirmation process under the leadership of Chairman Leahy and Ranking Member Grassley.

I am just worried that we are going to pass this bill as it ends up being amended, that it will go into effect, and we are going to pat ourselves on the back for having done something good about protecting America from cyber crime and from…

When DNI Clapper had his confirmation hearing in the Intelligence Committee, he listed the threats to America's national security. The No. 1 was cyber.

To block his appointment simply to express displeasure with either the process or the substance of the law is the wrong way entirely.

I think we have got to move forward.

I am someone who believes very strongly that the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau must go forward and should go forward under the direction of Mr. Cordray.

We want consumers to have a voice, and, frankly, the notion that this is unchecked, unbounded power is simply wrong.

I think the other thing that we have to recognize, too, is as we go forward we are, I think, trying to ensure that we do not replicate the crisis of 2008.

It is helping men and women in uniform, as Senator Reed pointed out, preventing them from being targeted by bad actors.

Thank you for your willingness to serve, Mr. Cordray, in a very difficult time and in a very challenging office.

And I will not put words in your mouth, but if it is a single issuer, that likely could be a Government entity.