We have seen an increase in lawsuits over the way that standard-essential patents are used and enforced.

am I in order to speak about the nomination of Tony West? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is in order.

today the Senate will vote on the nomination of Tony West to be Associate Attorney General. Although I will be supporting Mr. West's nomination, I have some concerns about his record that I want to share with my colleagues. This is a very…

I am pleased to join Senator Donnelly in introducing legislation that will prevent the EPA from distributing the personal information of farmers. This legislation comes in direct response to the EPA releasing personal information on over…

I think they harm drug competition.

According to the 2010 Federal Trade Commission report entitled 'Pay For Delay: How Drug Companies Payoffs Cost Consumers Billions,' these settlements cost consumers approximately $35 billion over 10 years.

In my opinion, they only end up keeping drug costs artificially high for consumers and the taxpaying public.

The reality is that these deals between brand-name and generic pharmaceutical companies delay the entry of generic medicines into the marketplace.

We should be doing all we can to see that the American consumer has access to lower-priced drugs.

I worked hard to make sure that this notice and filing provision was included in that legislation.

This is a very important hearing that we're having to learn more about pay-for-delay agreements.

the 340B program is not intended to subsidize pharmacies that team up with covered entities to turn a profit.

I will take a few minutes to talk about the President's nominee for Secretary of Labor Tom Perez. I have already spoken about Mr. Perez over the last few weeks. I will not repeat everything I said, but it is important for my colleagues to…

during the debate over the budget, Dr. Coburn and I offered an amendment to create a separate and independent inspector general within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. We introduced this amendment because, thanks to a quirk in…

We should be pleased that our country has made advances in race relations since the Voting Rights Act was passed.

I appreciate that. I have a question for any of the panelists on high-frequency trading.

Taxpayers deserve to know where their hard-earned dollars are going.

Every one of us, I do not care what our political alliances are, we should be totally opposed to suppressing votes.

I guess there is more red tape to this than I thought.

The law was necessary to address a shameful history.

Many people believe that Section 2 is the heart of the Voting Rights Act, unlike Section 5 that prohibits voter discrimination nationwide.

The Voting Rights Act guarantees the fundamental right to vote for all qualified voters, regardless of race or language.

They want to pick a fight on the DC Circuit, and, unfortunately, I believe part of this pressure, part of the effort of stopping qualified Republican nominees and then deciding to pick a fight now is a desire to pack the Court.

First of all, congratulations to the nominee, to Ms. Millett. Glad to have you here.

Of course, as soon as we had a Republican President, they had no problem filling that 11th seat.