the Chair and I earlier today were part of a historic majority--a very bipartisan majority--that voted 60 to 37 to extend unemployment insurance for millions of Americans across this country who are struggling to make ends meet, to keep…

Thank you, Senator Blumenthal, for the question.

Thank you, Senator, for that question.

Do you have a view as to what the division of responsibility should be between the United States Attorneys and the Department of Justice?

Your work is so critical to the credibility and trust of the public in our justice system.

I consider this hearing and others like it one of the most important things we do in the U.S. Senate.

Her trial experience, her knowledge of the courtroom and the law, and her devotion to improving our communities leads me to believe she will be fair and devoted to justice.

I have proposed that there be a constitutional advocate to protect privacy rights and civil liberties.

I want to join in expressing my appreciation for the work that you do on whistleblowers, really a profoundly important cause.

I support the compromise National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (NDAA). Though this bill has shortcomings, it will be good for our country and for Connecticut, and it will allow us to keep faith with the brave men and…

I echo my colleague's recommendations. Overall, so long as we manage the transition appropriately, my friend and fellow Senator from Connecticut and I believe the new system will save hundreds of millions of dollars and also protect the…

I thank Senator Whitehouse for that question. I would observe, in fact, that the executive branch, very importantly, followed a number of the leading ideas Senator Whitehouse and our group fashioned. Of course, we take no pride of…

I join my colleague from Connecticut to address a specific provision in the Bipartisan Budget Act. Overall, while this deal is flawed, we are heartened to see both sides coming together to put in place a workable fiscal foundation for the…

I offer my own concluding remarks by saying that Senator Whitehouse earlier referred to our failure. He characterized it as a failure to accomplish legislation during the last session of Congress. Senators Blunt and Graham were very…

I am pleased and honored to join my colleagues this morning, Senators Blunt, Whitehouse, and Graham. They have been leaders on issues involving national security and defense and particularly in the intelligence and cyber area. Senator…

I asked my colleague from Rhode Island to stay on the floor for a couple of minutes because I wanted to thank him for the erudite and eloquent explanation he has just given for why our focus should be so aggressively and unrelentingly on…

There is now an industry involved in this very far-reaching and far-ranging collection, use, and marketing of data.

over the weekend, the State of Connecticut and the country and the world commemorated with grief and continued pain the first year anniversary of the tragic massacre in Newtown. On the morning of Saturday--1 year after the Newtown…

I ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Remembering Erika Robinson

One of the ironies is that almost every day in the headlines and in the news we read about what the NSA is doing in the collection and use of data about citizens in this country who are protected by the Fourth Amendment.

The fact that it does is why we are here today, right?

I have joined Senator Warren in a bill that would prohibit the use of credit scores of job seekers in a discriminatory way during the hiring process.

I wouldn't want it to happen to me, but I know that it does.

Thank you for pursuing this profoundly important issue with such far-ranging consequences for both good and ill in our society.

One of our justices once defined the right of privacy as the right to be left alone.