"I think it suffers from the flaw that we just discussed, and that is it targets the actor and not the bad action."
"I remain skeptical of current proposals to abuse patent litigation by reforming ITC legislatively."
"Our hearts go out to the people of the City of Boston and to the families and loved ones of all those who were injured in yesterday's attacks."
"To suggest otherwise to me is both inaccurate and unfair."
"The patent law is not efficient, the other reason that we are here, 700,000 backlog."
"His tenure as head of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice has been successful by any measure."
"Instead of attacking Perez, we ought to get back to the work of strengthening civil rights and voting rights laws in this country."
"I think that the SHIELD Act is a flawed approach to litigation abuse reform."
"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 of new Section 337 investigations over the years."
"I find it necessary to point out that the title of this hearing, 'Mismanagement at the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice,' is unnecessarily provocative and demeans the seriousness of ..."
"That is true mismanagement, marginalizing the career experts, politicizing the decision making process, and ultimately breaking the law."