Chuck Grassley

While that law does allow Federal agencies to obtain electronic communications from a remote computing service without a search warrant...

On April 12, 2013, I sent you personally a letter requesting that you provide any personal notes from the Advisory Committee that you may have taken regarding Fast and Furious.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Heitkamp). Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The yeas and nays were ordered.

Can you really raise $1 trillion in new taxes without hitting the middle class?

I hope you can, but, I mean, I am challenging you.

I appreciate that very much, and I appreciate your coming to my office to have a conversation.

I think that the policy belongs with Congress, and the Sentencing Commission's role is to help Congress to perform that task.

I am committed to the goals of the Sentencing Reform Act that created the Commission in the first place.

Mr. Pryor, what agenda will you bring to the Commission, and what do you hope to accomplish as a result of your service on the Commission?

In these cases, the court was willing to forge ahead to create a just outcome with regard to the usual decisional restraints.

Thank you. Now to Ms. Dorsey.

My last question to you would be that you have had significant experience arguing patent cases...

How would you approach a vacuum in the law?

What role should the Supreme Court play in making patent law?

I guess I would say would you take a little special effort to become acquainted with these problems and see that justice is done.

I believe this court has an abysmal record of supporting whistleblowers.

I have come to the conclusion that whistleblowers are about as respected as skunks at a picnic by their peers and by the organizations that they are in.

We have a constitutional responsibility of oversight. We have passed the law. You do not forget about it.

I have been a strong encourager of whistleblowing in government and involved with Senator Levin almost 20 years ago on the Whistleblower Protection Act.

The Senate cannot approve any nominees that have not been submitted to us by the President of the United States.

I believe that there are 65 that have no nominee up here.

During the same time, the Senate has defeated only two nominees.

As of April 10, 2005, the Senate had confirmed zero of President Bush's nominees, and a 10-0 record is one that any President should be proud of.

Yesterday, the Senate confirmed yet another judicial nominee. That was the tenth judicial nominee was confirmed so far this year.

Do you realize out of, I think at that time, maybe about 85 vacancies that there are, that there are 65 that we do not even have the nominations for?