I would like to take a few minutes to discuss the unemployment insurance extension bill currently being considered. There is little question that the job market remains tight providing few job opportunities for those who are currently…

I intend to object to any unanimous consent request at the present time relating to the nomination of Katherine M. O'Regan to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Every year, the Department of Housing and Urban…

I intend to object to any unanimous consent request at the present time relating to the nomination of Carolyn Hessler Radelet to be the Director of the Peace Corps. I will object because I am inquiring into the circumstances related to the…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Gerald Austin McHugh, Jr., of Pennsylvania, to be…

I appreciate the majority leader yielding. It has been a tradition in the U.S. Senate--usually this time of the year, when various veterans organizations come to Washington, DC, to testify for their membership before Congress about issues…

I am going to ask each of you three questions, and I would like a short answer because, quite frankly, the idea is to summarize some things you have already said in your statement.

This will have to be my last question. Time is running out. Do you have a position on the length of STELA reauthorization if Congress decides to extend it?

Now it is more general.

I am done with my presentation today, but I will have questions for each of you, and quite a few questions for DISH, if you would be willing to answer them in writing.

So disruption would be the answer, the effect on the consumer that I was kind of concentrating my question on.

I would agree with both ends of the table that eliminating all copyright would be exceptionally complex.

the majority leader, the Senator from Nevada, came to the floor last night to take exception to my criticisms of how the Senate operates these days. I have criticized the actions of the current majority leadership, of which he is the head…

in the last few weeks I have come to the floor many times to speak about how the Senate has deteriorated from being the deliberative body it is supposed to be. Considering the comity on the floor on this bill under the direction of Senator…

I am pleased to join Senator Klobuchar in cosponsoring a resolution designating the week of March 9, 2014, as National Youth Synthetic Drug Awareness Week. The abuse of synthetic drugs has grown rapidly in a very short amount of time…

Congratulations, all of you, and thank you.

I only wanted to ask Justice White questions.

If I am fortunate enough to be confirmed by this Committee, by the Senate, I would follow all binding precedent from the Supreme Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

But history turned out that you were right in the controversial decision you were involved in the previous time you were before us.

I would hope that my Democrat colleagues would not subject these nominees to any litmus test.

I find no offense with your approach. And I hope the rest of you do not feel left out.

I believe home State support is important in the process, including the Judiciary Committee, as well as the full Senate.

I wanted to thank you for your leadership on the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act.

Discrimination remains a widespread social problem.

After yesterday's confirmation votes, the Senate has confirmed 64 lower-court Article III judges during President Obama's second term.

I think this is a problem throughout Republican and Democrat administrations, and there is a culture in these administrations to thumb their nose at the Congress.