Instead of attacking Perez, we ought to get back to the work of strengthening civil rights and voting rights laws in this country.
I find it necessary to point out that the title of this hearing, 'Mismanagement at the Civil Rights Division of the Depa...
His tenure as head of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice has been successful by any measure.
To suggest otherwise to me is both inaccurate and unfair.
I think that the SHIELD Act is a flawed approach to litigation abuse reform.
I think it suffers from the flaw that we just discussed, and that is it targets the actor and not the bad action.
The patent law is not efficient, the other reason that we are here, 700,000 backlog.
Now, it can't be disputed, and Mel Watt has done an excellent job of this, that there has been an increase in the number...
I remain skeptical of current proposals to abuse patent litigation by reforming ITC legislatively.
The fact that we are incarcerating more people means that we are going to need more capacity.
This hearing begins with a recognition of the fact that the prisons, the Federal prisons, are 14 percent over capacity.