We also need to turn a spotlight to online advertisers that are hoping that effective mechanisms are put in place to ensure that some of America's best-known companies and brands are not unwittingly helping to make piracy profitable.

As we evaluate new legislative tools, I have been wrestling with how to define the targets narrowly enough so that we can, on the one hand, rein in truly knowing infringers without leaving loopholes that provide a roadmap to criminals or…

But if that legislation were really working, I don't think we would be having this hearing.

I really appreciate this. I apologize to my colleagues who have been here.

I am concerned that they really do believe they are a nuclear weapon state now.

Today, a peaceful and permanent resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue remains as elusive as ever.

Well, I don't know if they saw all of the light, but they are----

I would like unanimous consent to present a letter into the record of this hearing from the Foreign Minister of Israel to the Secretary of State regarding the U.S. efforts in UNESCO to prevent the adoption of five anti-Israel resolutions.

I particularly liked what I thought was an eloquent critique of the piling on of mandates that the U.N. has adopted.

The legislation would 'detract from and undermine' their efforts to pursue U.N. reform.

They are a lot better than they were,----

Any honest assessment of the United Nations would have to conclude that the organization... plays an important and often essential role in supporting U.S. foreign policy and national security interests.