Mark Pryor

I take exception to the comments by my dear friend from Arizona.

From your standpoint, first, are there adequate tools available? And second, are consumers sufficiently aware of those tools?

I commend you for that.

I'm curious about your impression of the average Internet users' understanding and realization of the extent that his or her information is being collected.

I rise today to speak on behalf of a friend of mine who is going to be voted on by the Senate shortly to be a U.S. district court judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas. But before I do, I need to offer a few comments on what the…

this, hopefully, will be a noncontroversial amendment. Basically, it is a sense of the Senate that the Postal Service should not close any postal facilities or post offices until enactment of this postal reform bill. So this is a sense of…

I ask that we go to amendment No. 2036. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Arkansas [Mr. Pryor], for himself and Mr. Begich, proposes an amendment numbered 2036…

Thank you for having this hearing. It has been great.

Should the Congress, should specifically the Commerce Committee be considering other approaches to make sure that folks get their intellectual property protected both domestically and abroad?

It does seem to me that given the ubiquity of the Internet, as you said, it just becomes harder and harder and harder for folks who own that intellectual property to enforce that.

We don't want two Americas. We don't want urban to have all the latest and greatest and high-tech stuff, and then rural just be left behind.

This doesn't move the needle that much. We need to do overall tax reform.

You know, I know people say that. I wouldn't say that that's particularly fair. I mean, that's -- that's not -- that was not my motivation. I wasn't trying to position myself here at Arkansas. By the way, I have voted for increasing taxes…

Well, you know, that happens up here all the time. And I just decided I don't want to play that game anymore. I think people in Arkansas are sick and tired of the partisan games up here. It didn't have the votes to pass the Senate. It was…

I have no mental reservation about that. But trying to do it right now in this circumstances didn't make sense to me.

I think people in Arkansas are sick and tired of the partisan games up here. It didn't have the votes to pass the Senate. It was never going to be brought up in the House.

I come to the floor today to celebrate the service of Senator Barbara Mikulski, one of the most tenacious and effective senators to serve in the U.S. Senate. This month, following 41 years of public service, Senator Mikulski has reached a…

You're absorbing it at our expense. I mean, in effect, we're paying for the mistake.

That's why I asked about research, because under the Budget Control Act, it's going to be tougher in the next few years.

It is 22.86 Euclidean miles away from the closest FSA office, which is in Hope.

That seems inconsistent with the statute, because what they're left with is, they're left with traveling farther than the 20 miles that's in the statute to get to an FSA office.

Thank you both for hosting this and I want to thank you for being here on behalf of the SBA because SBA does a lot of great things around the country.

We're right on our numbers? Thank you.

there is still one major problem, I think, that exists, and that is USDA has no deadline for civil rights intake process or responding to civil rights complaints.

Let me ask about an ARS issue, about a 30-percent cut to extramural ARS activities.