I want to thank the chairman for yielding and congratulate him for his outstanding work on this important intelligence authorization bill. It has been my privilege to work on the committee now for 4 years. Let me just say, Madam Speaker…

Let me just say, both to Chairman Gensler and Chairman Schapiro, the comments this morning reflect a collaboration and cooperation that is recent, but is very commendable.

I hope is analytical and apolitical, which attracts the best minds that are looking across the system and forward.

I appreciate the systemic approach, but in just looking back it seems to me that the approach of looking at the risk assessment and evaluating it and seeing that they were doing what they said they were doing did not seem to be…

Mr. President, this afternoon at Arlington National Cemetery, this Nation laid to rest a great American, a great patriot, an extraordinary Senator, Ted Stevens. I had the privilege of serving with Senator Stevens for 13 years. In that…

I believe that the urgency of getting the United States of America onto a robust and secure health information infrastructure... is a primary national goal and of real urgency.

The purpose of medicine is to take care of the sick and when that purpose is not being met... a secondary purpose is interfering with a primary purpose.

Mr. President, today the Senate passed the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2010. I was pleased to have been involved in the crafting of this bill, which is the product of months of bipartisan discussions…

Madam President, I yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The remarks of Mr. Reed are printed in today's Record under ``Morning Business.'')

We cannot have elderly people lying alone, racked with pain, when medicine to cure that... is at hand, because of bureaucracy.

I appreciate very much that Chairman Leahy was willing to do that.

We are delighted to have him back and look forward to a more successful trip through confirmation at this time.

It is a very solemn thing for members of the U.S. Senate to consider nominees for the United States district court.

I think we do bring a perspective about the appropriate role of a judge to our duties.

Thank you, Senator Merkley. We very much appreciate your and Senator Wyden's expressions of support for these two nominees.

I have never had any more support shown in a bipartisan way for the nomination of Judge Steve Jones.

Your service on the district court and on the circuit court provides excellent background and qualifications for this position.