I rise today to speak on the Patent Reform Act of 2011, which I understand will be retitled as the ``America Invents Act.'' When this bill was marked up in the Judiciary Committee in 2007 and again in 2009, I voted against it, and I…

very briefly, the Senator from Texas is correct. No one who was directly involved in these negotiations is pleased with the outcome. Some will say that must be a pretty good outcome then. One of the things we did in order to enable us to…

I wish to agree with the comments made by our colleague from California, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, and urge all our colleagues, in the time that will exist between now and the time we are able to take up this matter…

last week we were all celebrating what would have been the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan. There was a piece in the Wall Street Journal by one of the economists who advised Ronald Reagan, Arthur Laffer, which I think recounts and…

I commend Senator Paul for his diligent work to try to bring spending in line with our Nation's fiscal realities. His amendment reduces the overall authorization level for the Federal Aviation Administration to $14.719 billion. That is the…

my work in support of the Leahy bill on patent reform, which is just another example.

I want to join Senator Grassley in thanking you for holding this hearing on an extremely important topic

The second ranking Republican in the senate is stepping down. Jon Kyl of Arizona announced today he won't seek a fourth term in 2012.

One of the things that was said in the campaign to pass the health care bill was that those who liked their current health care would be able to keep it. But as we know now and as we pointed out prior to the bill's passage, provisions in…

I have joined my colleagues to introduce legislation to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to remove the gray wolf. The Endangered Species Act has proved a failure for wolf conservation. I believe Congress must pave the way for a new…

I join him in urging repeal and replacement of this health care bill. It has to do with just one of the many burdensome new mandates. In this bill, as we know, there are mandates on individuals to purchase insurance, for example, as my…

as some of us predicted, problems are already arising from the Senate's ratification of the New START treaty last December. The Russians just ratified it, and their interpretation of its meaning and obligation is different from ours. That…

Yesterday I spoke to the events of January 8 in Tucson, AZ, specifically referencing the people we are honoring by the resolution that is before us today. At 2:30 this afternoon, we will have an opportunity to act as a body, Democrats and…

my State has lost an outstanding jurist, a true and able public servant, and a great Arizonan in Judge John M. Roll. In his honor, my Arizona colleague, Senator McCain, and I propose naming the soon-to-be constructed Yuma Federal…

I would like to call timeout from this partisan discussion to speak for a moment about the events in Tucson of January 8. It is the first opportunity I have had to address my colleagues about the tragedy of that day. The theme I would like…

I will comment more when I make my concluding comments, but what we have just done is to agree to provide a mechanism for the President to certify a way forward to fund the two large facilities that are part of the nuclear weapons complex…

let me thank my colleagues for working hard to get this treaty passed and for being able to achieve that as well, people within the administration. I appreciate the cooperation some of us have had with the chairman of the Foreign Relations…

I support the nomination of Judge Mary Murguia to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Murguia has served on the Federal district court in Arizona for a decade and has a distinguished record that has earned the respect of the legal…

this amendment has to do with the modernization of our nuclear weapons enterprise. It is a subject with which we began this debate. As we get toward the end of the debate, it remains a piece of unfinished business with which I think we…

I wish to thank both my colleagues from Tennessee for their very kind remarks. Actually, the place we have gotten, what we have achieved, is due to the efforts of a lot of people. It starts with Secretary Gates in the Department of…

obviously one of the purposes of these two amendments is to respond to one of the arguments that has been raised in support of this treaty. We have this wonderful new reset relationship with Russia, and were we to not ratify the treaty…

there was no delay in the implementation of the START I agreement because of a requirement that a side agreement be entered into between the then-Soviet Union and the United States on SLCMs. So I don't buy the notion that this necessarily…

I am not arguing that this issue has been resolved within Russia as to whether to go forward. I am not arguing whether it is a good thing or a bad thing. I simply submit it in response to the argument that the Russians would be crazy to…

I go on to note that the exclusion of rail-mobile launchers from the definition means that it would not cover rail-mobile systems if Russia were to reintroduce them and, therefore, there would have to be work by the BCC to figure out how…

Before my colleague from Nevada closes, I know this whole argument is based on the proposition that the Russians wouldn't be crazy enough to think about doing a rail system again so we don't need to worry about it. What is all the fuss, is…