Chris Coons

What more do you think we could be doing to help local law enforcement with these IP enforcement challenges?

Intellectual property protection is something that is of great importance to Chairman Leahy and to me.

And to what extent do City of Wilmington, New Castle County, DSP investigators that are dealing with crime, particularly drug crime that may be regional in its origin or gang-related crime, are they hampered by the lack of that…

Thank you for inviting me to be here today.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

So what are the challenges to getting all of the law enforcement entities within the State of Delaware to participate?

As you can tell, someone with his role as both an authorizer and an appropriator in federal law enforcement-related activity and with his long experience and intense interest is a tremendous resource and ally for us.

Thank you, Chairman Leahy.

9/11 taught us that the old way of doing business, when each police department, law enforcement, or intelligence agency acted as an island unto itself was counterproductive and, indeed, in the context of 9/11, even dangerous.

This legislation has provided state and local police with the funding they need to hire or retain officers who would otherwise have to be let go due to budget challenges.

I wanted to hold this hearing here in Delaware because our State has a strong history of working together with its federal partners to deliver safer communities for our citizens.

It is an honor to convene this hearing of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

Building off the lessons of the attacks of 9/11, Delaware police and their federal partners have created a system of collaborative policing that builds on the strengths of each.

I think some of our budget scoring rules are preventing us from being as fully engaged in using these valuable tools as we could be.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for accommodating me.

I simply wanted to thank the members of the panel and the 2 leads on this bill today for your great work in putting together a sensible bipartisan bill that I think will move.

I was thrilled to hear the details from Mr. Scripter, Mr. Damiano, Mr. Crasi, of the work that you've done.

I'll join the other members of this committee in thanking Ambassador Crocker.

How you see the prospects of our ever being successful in persuading the Pakistanis to change their relentless focus on India as the primary source of threat to their nation.

Maybe it was a resolution of the debt ceiling, Who knows?

I believe that we have an absolute obligation to provide a fair, impartial forum for litigants.

Great judging requires modesty and respect for the role that judges play in our system as arbiters of facts and the law rather than makers of policy.

I think it is always incumbent upon judicial officers to make sure that they set the tone so that all litigants are always treated with courtesy and respect.

Nomination hearings are important. The positions to which all of our nominees today are seeking confirmation carry with them lifetime tenure.

I just hope we will continue to sustain the current pace.