In fact, for the entire year of 2005, the Judiciary Committee held only 6 hearings for 15 judicial and circuit nominees.
I welcome you as the nominees, and I know that you are proud of the advancement you have made in your profession.
You know, the Government Accountability Office is part of the U.S. Government, and you call that a third party.
Will you answer the questions in my letter and provide the documents I requested? And if not, why not?
Before this incident, I or my staff had never heard of the so-called third-party meeting policy.
Mr. Chairman, I thank you for holding this hearing, and I think it is very important that Congress do its oversight work...
The Government is spying on them and prying into their personal lives.
Thankfully, until the Boston bombing we had prevented large-scale terrorist attacks on American soil.
We have seen an increase in lawsuits over the way that standard-essential patents are used and enforced.
Industry standards are critical to innovation and new technologies, products, and services.
Consumers like competition, interoperability, and choice with respect to their devices.