There has been some discussion today, Judge, about a plan by you and Mr. Conn to discredit a whistleblower, Ms. Carver.

Can you do something about cheating? Is that judicial independence?

I find your invocation of judicial independence to be something which, frankly, you ought to be ashamed of as a lawyer.

So you are saying he did not persist with the abuse of time?

I just wanted to see if I heard the answer to the Chairman's last question.

Did that pattern continue that he was putting his initials underneath some judges' time for showing up but really was not there?

Judge, the report that we released today describes a number of instances in which Judge Daugherty's improper practice of assigning Conn cases to himself and taking Conn cases from other judges and assigning them to himself was reported to…

That is no excuse for lying.

Did the ALJs get monetary awards?

That is an extraordinary acknowledgment. Truthful, but it is an extraordinary acknowledgment if you did not change one word of an analysis that you are depending on for--or you are signing, put it that way, you are signing your name to.

Thank you for holding this hearing to consider four nominations which are important not just to the people of Michigan but to the Nation.

Thank you very much, Congressman Smith. First of all, I want to thank you and Senator Brown for organizing this very important hearing on Chinese hacking and its impact on human rights and on commercial rule of law.

We ought to end up with knock-down, drag-out fights all the time between the country of residence and the country of what I call source.

Look, Senator, here is what you should do. You should tell us what the rules are going to be, give us a little flexibility, a reasonable amount of time, and get out of the way.

My first question has to do with the delays in rules coming out of OIRA. We have now a situation where delays of agencies are chronic.

That mentality and that culture is what the leaders have to attack.

What effect would this legislation have on the commander's authority to place an accused in pre-trial confinement pending investigation and disposition of the offense?

The problem of sexual assault is of such scope and magnitude that it has become a stain on our military.

This committee has no greater responsibility than to protect the men and women who wear the uniform of this country.

I mean, if they can do it, why couldn't every multinational do the same thing?

We have to change this system. But in order to change it, we have to understand it, not deny it.

If a shell entity is incorporated in a foreign tax jurisdiction, can it be disregarded for U.S. tax purposes?

I do not consider deferral to be a sham or abuse in any kind of way.

And the pricing, when you look at the facts and circumstances, is it also the value of what is transferred?

And if Apple can create companies with no tax residence and create profits in those companies, and if that is going to be tolerated, couldn't all U.S. multinationals in effect do the same thing--eliminate the corporate tax for our…