Joseph T. Burns: “It is my understanding, Mr. President, that the administration's budget requested $9.4 million to deal with phase-1…”

this is a special day to those of us who serve on the Commerce Committee and have served on the Commerce Committee ever since we have been in the Senate because today is the 10th anniversary of the Telecom Act of 1996. I want to talk about…

next week should be a week of looking at our health care system and debating on the direction that I think the policy should go in that area. Not only do we have tort reform that has been suggested by the leader, but also the ability of…

in 2002 Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, providing important safeguards against unscrupulous accounting practices. In the wake of significant corporate accounting scandals, Congress created the Public Company Accounting Oversight…

today I rise on this subject and first of all I want to congratulate--maybe that is not the word--the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, for tackling this important problem. I can't think of a time or a piece of legislation that has been…