How can you be so dismissive of that? I mean, does that not concern me?

How does stewardship of the taxpayer dollar figure in to the decisions...

I think as you can hear from the questions that we are asking, it does appear that HHS is now too big to control.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. Each amount made available by this Act…

It is our responsibility to come back and to exercise some oversight on that.

You have gotten too unwieldy. You are into areas where you should not necessarily be.

We obviously had a significant legislative failure recently trying to help protect the intellectual property on which so many American businesses rely.

Yes, I think, Mr. Chairman, this is an issue that we should be sort of talking through...

A bill introduced by Senator Whitehouse and cosponsored by Senators Coons, Graham, McCain, Blumenthal, Klobuchar, Hatch, Kyl, Schumer, and Chairman Leahy enhanced penalties for selling counterfeit goods to our military.

Voting to confirm an individual to the Federal bench is one of the most important and lasting decisions that a Senator can make.

It is frustrating for many of us that this is a crime that is being conducted in plain view.

Mr. President, I would like to spend a little time today talking about what has become known across the country as the Obama economy. This administration, after nearly 4 years, has failed to get this country and to get our economy moving…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. EPA Rules and Regulations

Mr. President, this is a comprehensive report, and it contains expert testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee from the best scientific medical research, from institutions such as Johns Hopkins, Yale University…

So, obviously, it is an outrageous rip-off of the taxpayers' dollars, not to mention the project alone, but the cost escalation.

What that does, frankly, is squeeze out small businesses all over America on behalf of a group of Native American entities in Alaska.

GAO has called upon OMB's Office of Federal Procurement Policy, the very office that you are nominated to head, to amend Federal acquisition regulations to require Federal agencies to closely document compliance with the new SBA…

The money that is now going to them has increased to $4.7 billion in 2010 alone, and they call themselves small business.