We should not design or conduct undercover operations which include guns crossing the border.

Yet as we look at the Department of Homeland Security today, we see agencies failing to coordinate with one another, breakdowns in judgments, and failures to protect our Government's own agents on the front lines.

I want to discuss an important component of the patent reform legislation that protects against frivolous and vexatious litigation arising from qui tam suits for false patent markings. The bill before the Senate abolishes this qui tam…

I urge my colleagues to support final passage on the America Invents Act. The Judiciary Committee has held numerous hearings on the need for patent reform, and has done a lot of work over the past several Congresses. We have had a good…

the American economy remains on an unsettled footing, as we all know. There are some real signs of economic recovery, but it shows a very fragile recovery. The consumer confidence level seems to be increasing, and that is good news. U.S…

Today we continue in our efforts to lessen the burden our overworked courts currently face. We are about to confirm three more judicial nominees. Two of the three nominees we will vote on tonight are for seats designated as judicial…

Tax strategies are bad because they allow the tax law to be patented. A patent gives the holder the exclusive right to exclude others from using the patented invention. A tax strategy patent makes taxpayers choose between paying more than…

In simple terms, a tax strategy is any method for reducing, avoiding, or deferring tax liability based upon the tax law--including interpretations and applications of the Internal Revenue Code, regulations, and related guidance. A tax…

Section 14 of the bill, which has been before the Senate for the last week or more, prevents patenting of tax law. It provides that a strategy that relies on the tax law to reduce, to avoid, or to defer tax liability cannot be novel or…

earlier today the Finance Committee held a hearing to discuss the serious problems of fraud in Medicare and Medicaid. Over the last 9 years, the Finance Committee has held more than 20 oversight hearings dealing with Medicare and Medicaid…

supporting what the chairman has just said, outside of the fact that there might be one or two controversial nongermane amendments to this legislation, we have to look at the underlying product. The underlying product is very bipartisan…

Thank you, Madam Chairman, for holding this very important hearing. More importantly, thank you for your personal involvement in this issue.

The rights affirmed in the cases from Griswold . . . to Lawrence enjoy widespread support and acceptance.

Thank you very much.

I would like to express my strong support for Senator Coburn's proposal to end Patent and Trademark Office fee diversion. It is a commonsense, entrepreneur friendly solution to many of the problems plaguing the Patent and Trademark Office…

I did not think I would have time for a last question, but this involves Federal judges making tax return information available to law enforcement in a parental abduction case if requested.

As Senator Grassley said, if this legislation can save just one child and that child is yours, you will know that it is worth it.

the tension between confidentiality and whatever is needed by the investigators, it should be the narrowest access to information that serves their purposes

I should express my gratitude to those others who have helped so much on this and, quite frankly, more involved on this bill than I have been, including Chairman Leahy, Senator Hatch, Senator Sessions, and Senator Kyl. This is a bipartisan…

we are continuing in our cooperative effort to fill vacancies in the Federal judiciary that have been designated as judicial emergencies. Today, the Senate will confirm two more of President Obama's judicial nominees. I am pleased we are…

today, I reintroduce the Sunshine in the Courtroom Act, a bipartisan bill which will allow judges at all federal court levels to open their courtrooms to television cameras and radio broadcasts. Openness in our courts improves the public's…

the last thing I would say is kind of a, I hope you get plenty of opportunity to present to the EPA a lot of things that they are doing that is detrimental to agriculture, harmful to agriculture.

I also want to echo what Senator Baucus said of the job you are doing.

I just hope you can make it clear to them because you are from the same part of the country I am, and they just do not seem to get it.

What do you believe is the appropriate role for search engines to play in combating rogue sites?