In keeping with the spirit of openness and transparency that the President and the Attorney General promote, will you provide my office with a copy of the non-prosecution agreement with the Islamic Investment as well as answers to my…

today the Senate will vote on the nomination of John Andrew Ross to be U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, and also Timothy M. Cain, to be district judge for the District of South Carolina. Both seats have been deemed…

I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa.

I also believe that companies should not take unfair advantage of their market power, engage in deceptive business practices that negatively impact the marketplace.

some of my constituents are concerned that small, local Iowa businesses are not treated in a fair and competitive manner

We should not be penalizing successful companies that are innovating, providing cost-effective and productive services and creating jobs.

Some are concerned that Google is unfairly using its market power to manipulate search and drive web traffic to its own sites to the detriment of small business and consumers.

I intend to object to proceeding to the nomination of Norm Eisen to be Ambassador to the Czech Republic at the Department of State for the following reasons. I object to the proceeding to the nomination because of Mr. Eisen's role in the…

One of the critical ways that we accomplish combating trafficking is bringing successful prosecutions.

I am pleased to join Senator Feinstein in cosponsoring a resolution designating the month of October 2011 as National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month. The abuse of prescription drugs and cold medicine is currently the fastest growing drug…

We have a terrible budget situation, and it requires that we take a close look at how some of this money is spent.

I associate myself with what you said, feel that the bill ought to be reauthorized.

May I sum up by saying I think you are telling me that we will not see these problems in the future, then?

But that would be on the specific point I was making about whether it is better to make it easier for visa recipients to be excused from cooperating.

I really appreciate oversight hearings because I do not believe Congress does enough oversight.

It would be more accurate to state that, to the Division, civil rights experience is limited to experience with liberal advocacy groups.

The Division argued that the loss of Democratic partisan affiliation on the ballot would eliminate a cue that fostered cross-racial voting.

It seems to me we are pushing ourselves to where we were in the 1990s and 2000s that brought us to the financial collapse.

It has taken extreme positions in religious employment cases, seeking to make school districts accommodate teachers' very disruptive and unreasonable demands.

It has brought numerous actions for alleged discrimination in lending.

Transparency brings accountability, and why does the Division not want to be transparent and accountable?

I rise to rebut the points Senator Sessions made, and I do acknowledge, as he said on the floor, that 2 or more years ago I was on the same page he is on this issue. What has intervened, in the meantime, that causes me to differ from the…

I urge my colleagues to oppose all three amendments to the patent bill so we can send this important jobs bill to the President of the United States for his signature. I then urge my colleagues to support final passage of the Leahy-Smith…

I think the Senator from Alabama has given me a reason to suggest the importance of the language of the bill he wants to strike because he said that law ought to be equally applied. The law for this one company is that they were not given…

How much time do I have? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Two minutes in opposition to the amendment.