Mr. President, let me just say to those who are following this debate, if we go to the dictionary and look up the word ``persistent,'' there will be a picture of Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland. She has been our leader on so many…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Con. Res. 45, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the concurrent resolution by title. The assistant bill clerk read as…

Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:04 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, June 6, 2012, at…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 6, 2012; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the…

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk, and I ask unanimous consent to consider the amendment out of order. The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to considering the amendment at this point? Hearing none, the Clerk will report the…

Mr. Chairman, I yield the balance of my time to my colleague from New York (Mr. Higgins).

Mr. Chairman, I rise today to offer this amendment in a bipartisan fashion with my colleague, Mr. Higgins from New York. What we're looking to do here, Mr. Chairman, is amend the proposal before the committee to restore $36 million in…

I have presented several questions already to Mr. Berg.

In our brief time here in Detroit, we have already learned that until this city outgrows its childish love affair with firearms, or until city officials find the courage to outlaw them, many of our hopes will remain unrealized and our…

I think a district judge needs to be very conscious of the role of the prosecutor in turning over evidence.

And this simply cannot stand, it cannot be the case--if, in fact, we are a Government with few and defined powers, it cannot be the case that we can regulate anything and everything.

Like many of my colleagues, I am very concerned with any practice that could result in innocent people going to prison.

We continue to expand the federal criminal code, we continue to expand the number of federal inmates we have.

I think it is very, very important to have transparency in sentencing.

We all know that our constitutional framework provides that all individuals are guaranteed the right to fair treatment and a fair trial.

The Attorney General did the right thing in directing, even after the guilty verdict, the dismissal of the Stevens case because of all the misconduct there.

Simply the power to bring or to withhold prosecution is probably the most significant power in the whole criminal justice system.

The legislation proposed by Senator Murkowski would disturb this careful balance without a demonstrable improvement in either the fairness or the reliability of criminal judgments.