I look forward to debating with Senator Wicker the issues which he has raised more appropriately on the Senate floor than in this hearing.

the legislature, the Congress, had better get busy and it better act on this subject so we do not await court action

It has been my custom to make a report to the Congress, my constituents, and the general public when I return from a trip. I have sought recognition to speak about foreign travel I made to Beijing, Hanoi and Taipei from August 6, 2010, to…

This is a subject of enormous importance, and I regret that we have not had more time today to do it justice.

The Criminal Law Subcommittee will now proceed with the hearing on the subject of rape.

I have sought recognition to introduce the Stem Cell Research Advancement Act of 2010 on behalf of Senator Boxer, Senator Feinstein, and myself. Some 21 days ago, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in an…

What would your advice be to women's organizations to persuade police commissioners, other than Commissioner Ramsey, to allow for transparency and allow for stakeholders to be involved in reviewing these cases?

The statistics are staggering. Over 20 million women, or 18 percent of all women in the United States, have been victims of rape.

I wish to speak to a resolution honoring the National Council for International Visitors, NCIV, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The United States has the responsibility of protecting its citizens by ensuring peace, and I believe…

I seek recognition to introduce the Safe Highway Markings Act of 2010, a bill that would establish minimum standards limiting the amounts of arsenic and lead contained in glass beads for reflective pavement markings. This bill will help…

I have sought recognition to address the subject of televising the Supreme Court of the United States. Legislation is pending on the Senate docket which was voted out of the Judiciary Committee by a vote of 13 to 6, and it is particularly…

The Mideast peace process is of enormous importance, not only to that region but to U.S. national security interests and to the interest of peace in the world. The Palestinian track seems to be stuck with the controversies over the…

I have sought recognition to continue the discussion of the erosion of the very important principle of separation of powers. Our Constitution was devised with three branches: article I, the Congress; article II, the Executive, the…

I have sought recognition to comment about the serious erosion of the doctrine of separation of powers during the course of the past two decades. With the pendency of the confirmation of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court…

I am supporting Ms. Kagan because of her intellect, her professional background, her academic background, and because I think she will be an effective balance in the ideological battle which is being waged in the conference room of the…

I want to make one more point. That is on the issue of the Supreme Court taking more cases. Here again, if there was transparency, America would be outraged at the workload on the Supreme Court, as the Court has moved from one clerk, to…

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan did little to undo the impression that nominating hearings are little more than a charade in which cautious non-answers take the place of substantive exchanges. In this, she was following the practice of…

If you show people what this money is paying for, the murder of innocent people, training little kids to fight in combat, then all of a sudden I think it becomes much more clear.

It is available if you know where to go to look. People do not go to look.

If we simply say that an organization is a terrorist group or if we simply say it is a front for terrorism, that is not the same thing as saying this group provided the money and means for individuals to attempt to blow up the U.S. embassy…

This is, I think, an unusual bill because it involves so many big issues.

The evidence is very, very forceful about the involvement of Saudi money in promoting terrorism.

We have seen our legislation disregarded by the executive branch and then by the judicial branch.

The 9/11 Commission Staff Monograph on Terrorist Financing found al Qaeda was funded to the tune of approximately $30 million per year by divisions of money from Islamic charities.

I think television would be so good to tell the public what is going on.