the use of contractors needs to continue to decrease substantially, and I intend to keep pushing on this point until contractors are not used for any inherently governmental purpose.

No one should profit by speculating on the likelihood of a terrorist attack. Firms facing financial risk posed by threats to our national security may take out insurance, but they should not buy a derivative. A futures market is for…

And does the Senator agree that this provision will also empower the Commission to prevent trading in contracts that may serve a limited commercial function but threaten the public good by allowing some to profit from events that threaten…

It is very important to restore CFTC's authority to prevent trading that is contrary to the public interest. As you know, the Commodity Exchange Act required CFTC to prevent trading in futures contracts that were 'contrary to the public…

I thank Chairman Lincoln and Chairman Dodd for maintaining section 745 in the conference report accompanying the Dodd- Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which gives authority to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission…

It is a great pleasure for me to be here this morning to express my strong support for Dr. Janet Yellen.

I found it just shocking that the court would hold to a technicality when a woman couldn't possibly have known during the time that the tolling was taking place that she was disadvantaged.

However, the fact is, many institutions still do not reflect the diversity of our society and the Federal courts, I'm sorry to say, are one of them.

the woman's life and that the woman's health must be protected in any abortion regulation.

Like asthma in Los Angeles from ozone.

the President does not have an overriding authority here

If you are confirmed, and I believe you're going to be, you will be only the fourth female justice in history.

Nobody in Congress, nobody in the administrative apparatus has ever suggested that books pose any kind of corruption problem.

I believe our Nation was founded on the principle that the United States would never be a place for religious persecution.

I wrote the assault weapons legislation. I found the body of Harvey Milk.

the Lopez decision struck all of us very hard.

California is a big state, with roiling cities. It is the gang capital of America.

I rise today to join my colleagues in mourning the loss of one of the Senate's legendary Members--Robert C. Byrd, the honorable senior Senator from the great State of West Virginia. It wasn't too long ago that I looked right over there and…

the executive's power in this area is really limited by the specifics of the actual situation

the judge did there was find the terrorist surveillance program illegal and essentially say that the plaintiff was entitled to damages from the government.

I believe that you are eminently confirmable.

I rise today to introduce the Deepwater Drilling Royalty Prohibition Act. The purpose of this bill is to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not used to incentivize the dangerous and often dirty business of offshore drilling in deep waters…

I rise on behalf of myself and Senator Boxer to introduce legislation to further the restoration of the San Francisco Bay. There are many areas in the country in which restoration is done, and I am pleased to introduce an authorization for…

I rise today to express my support for the conference report on the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act. This conference report expands sanctions authorized by the Iranian Sanctions Act of 1996 to foreign companies who sell Iran refined…

thanks to Senator Feinstein and Senator Cornyn, two members of this committee, in a very, very strongly worded letter to the appropriate Canadian governmental official, they put one in place relatively quickly.