I appreciate the remarks of my friend from Alabama, my gym mate and friend and colleague. I would say this. This is simply a renewal of a bill that has passed the Senate unanimously several times before. These days, technology has allowed…

I thought it was incredibly unfair. I thought it was a power grab by our Democratic colleagues that will change the nature of the judiciary for the rest of our lives.

I believe that vote November 21st, 2013, forever changed the way the Senate works when it comes to Executive appointments of judicial nominations and will do long-term damage to the judiciary as a whole because the most ideological will be…

I do not want to shut down or stamp out Bitcoin.

Good. Well, I would, again, be interested in your submitting the specifics in writing.

It is imperative that its susceptibility to illicit uses be addressed.

Right. And I am sure you have thought about this, because you realize the danger Silk Road-type actors have to this appropriate new way of payment.

If Bitcoin continues to attract attention, mostly as a way to finance purchases on Web sites like Silk Road, it is going to find itself in the digital wasteland.

It took long enough.

Our greatest problem is that middle class incomes are declining in America for the first time in American history.

Just related to that, but in a specific, some of my colleagues have criticized for keeping rates 'artificially low.'

I think you will make a great Chair and your Brooklyn wisdom shines through.

I speak today in strong support of S.1512, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1335 Jefferson Road in Rochester, NY, as the ``Specialist Theodore Matthew Glende Post Office.'' Specialist Glende's…

We want to avoid the scene of trailers being unused, which happened despite Mary Landrieu's great efforts in Louisiana.

I just hope you will keep an open mind with the remaining $2 billion in terms of resiliency, using your authority to transfer so we can build better to avoid the next storm.

We do not want to pay when insurance has already paid.

So, without being too confrontational to your dear friends at OMB, you are agreeing with me that the law does not require their approval.

We were held up for too long a period of time by some, but getting that amount of money in programs that are really going to work was one of the accomplishments I think we can be proudest of in our legislative careers.

I am really worried about more bureaucracy getting in the way of doing FIMP, of doing Rockaway, of doing Fire Island.

We have learned from the mistakes that were made in Hurricane Katrina, and she was our guide as we went through this.

I predict that this second year of Hurricane Sandy recovery will be a year when people see lots of rebuilding.

I am sure Senator Blumenthal joins me. I wish to say to my dear friend from Rhode Island--and he truly is a dear friend--that his generosity of word and spirit is only equaled by his intelligence, his diligence, and his foresightedness…

I thank my colleague, the Senator from Rhode Island, for calling Senator Blumenthal and me and others together and for taking action on climate change. There has been no one in this body who has done more to sound the alarm about climate…

Senator Schumer's comments about filling the D.C. Circuit up one way or another.

I know the hour is getting late. The passage of this bill is nigh, and so I will be brief, but I wish to make a few points. First, this is hardly a day of exultation and happiness. The sad truth is that we have ended just where we started…