Dodd-Frank poses significant challenges. Never has so much rulemaking authority and regulatory discretion been granted so broadly.

Thank you all for attending today.

Mr. President, I have to object. Again, this is not so much about a particular nominee but the fact that the Court of Federal Claims is operating with 11 active judges, and when you include the senior judges ready, able, and willing to…

Mr. President, reserving the right to object, and I will object. The reason we should not confirm new judges to the Court of Federal Claims has little to do with these nominees and more to do with the court itself. It doesn't need new…

I want to return to a topic that Senator Corker touched upon: affordable housing.

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the definition of tyranny.

Mr. President, there are certain policies that should not be controversial. It should not be controversial to expect that the laws of this Nation be enforced--equally, fairly, and fully. It should not be controversial to expect local city…

Have you taken a look at how countries like, let's say, the United Kingdom or France have addressed this issue?

Mr. President, today, on July 7, we have seen yet another extension of the nuclear negotiations with Iran--a terrorist- sponsoring, anti-American, outlaw regime with the blood of hundreds of Americans on its hands, from Lebanon, to Iraq…

Does the Executive Branch yet have legislative proposals that they are prepared for this Congress to take under advisement?

I want to commend the agents and employees you have in that field office there for their dedicated public service.