Richard Blumenthal

Isn't it appropriate for Congress to consider revisiting antitrust immunities that have been granted in the past?

We believe that the leagues enjoy antitrust exemptions and billions of dollars in subsidies that should require them to give fans fair access to their favorite teams on TV

I have proposed as a method of creating funds for job training and capital investment that there be a manufacturers' reinvestment account.

Thank you very much, Madam Secretary.

I believe is a key example of how public-private partnerships can help our manufacturers invest and grow.

Great. I would welcome an opportunity to work with you on it.

I have proposed that there be a constitutional advocate to, in effect, provide some adversarial process within the FISA Court.

Very few judges would permit a proceeding before them in which only one side is presented because they know that the core principle of our judicial system is that it is adversarial.

I wonder if you could comment in particular on the testimony, very compelling testimony, from Mr. Salgado about the need for transparency.

Thank you. Let me just move on.

But you have given me a number for the communications but not a number for the dollars.

I do not understand what resource intensive... it looks like it is going to cost a lot.

I do think that people should be concerned about the greater intrusiveness.

$1 billion to buy helicopters from the Russian export agency that is also selling arms to Syria... will strike most Americans as a tremendous waste of money.

I support that design, the $443 million for the design program.

We need to be able to convince the American people about what the impact of sequester is.

I agree with what Senator Kaine has just said the responsibility being on the part of Congress.

And the absence of these regulations has real-world consequences in imperiling lives and perhaps causing crashes and imperiling people.

I would argue that there is standing under a correct and I think legal interpretation of the standing doctrines.

Let me ask, then, perhaps all of you: How common are challenges based on delays in rulemaking?

Frankly, the Health Care Affordability Act has done more to extend parity than we ever were able to do in our parity bill.

We held a hearing that dealt in part with it last time, and it was discussed at that hearing as a prime example of rule delay meaning justice and safety denied.

I want to again thank both of you for being here today. Congressman Kennedy, I assure you that these regulations will not be the last word.

I would think that this would spark a lot of interest in Washington, particularly amongst the Chamber of Commerce.

We do not need to mandate new rules on them. We just need them to be more transparent with adhering to the rules that we have put before them