My father taught me a long time ago not to make a speech or give an opinion unless I thought it was important. I think tonight it's important, and I hope that you also think it's important. I would never question anyone's motives and…

I believe that this hearing gives us the unique opportunity not just to discuss the merits of this particular merger, but to discuss the broader challenges that many community pharmacists are facing.

In particular we thank him for introducing the Save Our Independent Hometown Pharmacies Act.

This is one area where I am leaning in the direction of it would pay for itself 10 times over.

It's incredulous what I am hearing here today from my friends on the other side of the aisle. I was a U.S. Attorney and used the PATRIOT Act. I debated it, I lectured it, and I put a terrorist away by using the PATRIOT Act. I was also a…

This meeting here is just as important to me; it is just that we have to be in three different places at one time anymore.

Let's assume that the money that you have been budgeted last year will be cut by 50 percent. What do we do collectively?

I mean, I doubt we could fulfill the mandates that we are getting from our Federal partners.

We are missing a very critical war right here on our borders of the United States, and that is--and I agree with you 1,000 percent. It is a war.

If we can do that in Northern Pennsylvania then we certainly should be able to do it on the Mexican border.

the terrorists--the Taliban, al-Qaeda--they recruit people who are poor, people who are unemployed.

I want to compliment you and the Bureau because you certainly have significantly increased the effectiveness and efficiency and the prestige of the Bureau.

This hearing today is not about religion, with all due respect. It is about terrorists.

I want to thank the Chair for this desperately needed hearing. I want to thank your courage and your leadership for bringing this to the forefront.

For my colleagues on the other side, I want to tell my good friend that I will be with you shoulder-to-shoulder in hearings for the Ku Klux Klan and any other racist group that defiles this country.

I have known that you as a senator prided yourself on meeting the needs of your constituents.

How can we expect our constituents--that the United States must send their tax dollars overseas, that it is in the best interest of these countries, and the U.S. in the long run, to continue to send our money to other countries, even those…

Back in 2005, I was one of the several that helped write the Adam Walsh Child Safety Act.

A person who is a registered sex offender, according to our court system, does not have a constitutional right to be anonymous anymore.

If it needs to be tweaked to refine it more, let's tweak it. But let's make sure that the law is enforced.

I come to the floor this evening to applaud my good colleague and friend from Pennsylvania. In fact, our districts border one another. And we have the same philosophies because we're so close--our districts overlap. We share a couple of…

As a two-time cancer survivor and the father of a daughter living with cystic fibrosis, what is rhetorical for many of my colleagues is a reality for my family. There is no doubt that reforms are needed to ensure that individuals with…