Dick Durbin

Certainly when you reconsider the Innocence Protection Act, which is coming up, I think, this fall, it would be very useful to go back to the original position taken by many members of this Judiciary Committee.

I think you make a valid point there, and I appreciate your statement.

I think that there is something more that Congress can do in that regard.

I want to acknowledge the hard work of my senior senator, Jack Reed in preserving and creating affordable housing in Rhode Island and across the country.

It is clear to me that Congress must do more to help struggling homeowners and specifically that we need to take another serious look at the Durbin proposal to allow bankruptcy judges to modify the terms of mortgages on principal…

That effort, which began with preliminary discussions with then-Senator Barack Obama, has produced the Autism Treatment Acceleration Act of 2009.

We are also planning for the reauthorization of the Combating Autism Act which is set to expire on September 30, 2011.

The plans of Autism Speaks are equal to the task.

I want to thank every member of the Senate for their leadership in passing this much needed stimulus bill that will create over 1500 jobs just through projects for CTA alone.

I do struggle with this notion that the radio stations can pick anybody's performance and use it to their benefit and not compensate them.

The market has changed so dramatically. The public performance right looms so large in the eyes of the performers and the record companies.

As a matter of property rights, men and women who create and own a copyrighted work should have the right to get paid.

But this is your business, the selling of music, and advertising to go with it.

In my callow, reckless youth, I owned a restaurant/night club with live music.

I understand well the important role the Board plays in promoting our Nation's transportation safety.

I am confident she will work with the Committee to breathe new life to Essential Air Service.

I have been working with Chairman Rockefeller and others to draft a comprehensive STB reauthorization measure.

If confirmed, Ms. Kurland will play an important role in crafting our national aviation policy.

Public broadcasting serves an important role in communities.

Sixty of these individuals have already returned to the battlefield that have been released.

I would want to be shown in opposition to what passed last week, this so-called preference in our sense of the Senate language for going to commissions.

I do not question the professionalism or integrity of those who were involved in the Judge Advocate Generals' operations.

I do not think these military commissions have been so discredited.

I hope they can be reconceived in a much fairer fashion.

The figures speak for themselves. The fact that over the 7 years we had three who were tried before military commissions and 145 in Article III courts is an indication to me that there was a presumption that the most successful line of…