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…

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.