Richard Blumenthal

Should this lesson be written into the law so that the faceless criminal defendant who may not get a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing has the same protection?

Thank you all for your excellent work in a time of great challenge, and thanks to all the men and women who serve under you.

Thank you. Again, thank you, Mr. Chairman. My time has expired, but I am going to continue my interest.

What is the reason that they are not brought to court martial?

Are you making efforts to speed up the process?

I profoundly agree with the statement that we have heard again and again that our most important asset is our people.

Thank you to the witnesses for the excellent work that you are doing in a very difficult time, perhaps more difficult than any within recent memory.

The casualties are still too high.

That's a challenge that has to be addressed, in my view and, I think, perhaps others, perhaps yours as well.

I want to just briefly explore an area which I think is important to the future of this agreement.

And the reasons that those documents are not available to the Committee would be the proprietary information that they include or--as now a private antitrust lawyer, maybe you could explain that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank all the witnesses for being so cooperative and forthright and straightforward in your responses today.

But a full evaluation of this deal would really depend on an examination of those kinds of material, that kind of information, testimony, interviews, documents, all of the stuff that you review as an antitrust enforcer, that the FCC could…

Essentially, the focus of my interest is in protecting consumer information that is obtained by virtue of the agreements.

The burden is on the government, as well, to uncover the facts and do a thorough investigation.

When you come to the Department of Justice, the companies bear a burden of proof because of the market concentration that exists

The Department of Justice really has the primary enforcement role in this area

My feeling has been over the years that the Department of Justice really has failed to be as rigorous or vigorous as it should be in enforcing antitrust laws

My time has expired, but I want to thank really all the witnesses for addressing these questions so well.

Let me begin by thanking Mr. Milch for your endorsement of the bill that I have introduced that Senator Klobuchar mentioned, the next generation wireless bill, and hope to be working with you in light of your endorsement on it, because I…

Thank you very much.

I'm hopeful that we will move quickly to confirm every one of you.

Thank you and your families in advance, should you have that honor.

There is nothing more important than this job in our justice system. You will be the voice and face of justice for the people who come to your courtroom.

We need to move forward even more expeditiously than we have, and I think there is a growing sense, a bipartisan spirit of cooperation.