Mary Landrieu

It makes no sense. We can stay here all night, and I am not sure we can get anybody to understand it. We have to reverse this law and get transparency back into our electoral process.

May I expand on the Citizens United? The Senator from Rhode Island and Senator McCain wrote a brief to the Supreme Court suggesting the detrimental impact of the decision the five Justices have made. Did they, in that decision--how did…

I'm very pleased to hear that fracking is not the problem.

I want to say I really appreciate the hearing the chairman and the ranking member have put together.

But I think it's a very important point that you raised.

Thank you very much. I have a short statement for the record.

Absolutely. And it is not. That is why I stressed, I say to the Senator from Maryland, that in this bill, which the Senator has so ably sponsored and written, the screen to get into court is tighter than in other wage discrimination laws…

I would like to bring to your attention some concerns I have with the Design for the Environment (DfE) program.

It is moments like these that need to be captured and promoted.

I am going to have to leave to go to an Energy and Water markup, of which I am one of the ranking members.

We struggle to make democracy relevant to the children in our country.

I began work here with other Senators and then, as you know, traveled to Uganda myself.

It is beyond comprehension that this single man, with a relatively small group of followers, has been able to just run havoc through this part of the world.

What are we doing here to help?

Until you get your private property rights done over here, you are not going to be able to do anything.

America who has been the most successful country in the world for this entrepreneurial, democratic, open society, we would have a lot of ideas and services that help to create this country that the world is desperately in need of.

We are not spending, to my mind, and I am an appropriator, we are not spending the percentage of our total overall spending on research and development that your companies would.

I mean, there are things we know even though we beat ourselves up and say how terrible we are, the fact is we are pretty great and we still are.

I did not vote for final passage but I did vote for the Crowdfunding piece that Scott Brown and others put forward.

Capital does not flow to the smartest most able, it flows to those that are most connected. Period.

The Federal Government overall is somewhere between two and three. That should be frightening to everyone.

In the President's January announcement on tourism, he said one of his goals is to expedite the visa issuance process for visitors from Brazil and China.

There are wonderful businesses out there that need these loans and need these guarantees.

I would say that your budget is not adequate to carry out the responsibilities that you have been asked to do.

I think it is a really important fact to get out there, that while banks are making small business loans and the volume is greater than the SBA, their loans are short-term in nature and they are not helping small businesses.