Thank you, Your Honor.

The effort that you have undertaken to come in here and to do that is really valuable for us.

Let me just say, both to Chairman Gensler and Chairman Schapiro, the comments this morning reflect a collaboration and cooperation that is recent, but is very commendable.

I hope is analytical and apolitical, which attracts the best minds that are looking across the system and forward.

I appreciate the systemic approach, but in just looking back it seems to me that the approach of looking at the risk assessment and evaluating it and seeing that they were doing what they said they were doing did not seem to be…

yesterday we were again thwarted in our attempts to take another important step in supporting our Nation's economic recovery. in 2009, we passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which provided a much needed jump-start to get our…

I want to commend you because you have identified a significant issue, both the impact on the taxpayer and the impact on the people who we're trying to help, students, people all across this country.

today the Senate passed the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2010. I was pleased to have been involved in the crafting of this bill, which is the product of months of bipartisan discussions, collaboration, and…

this afternoon at Arlington National Cemetery, this Nation laid to rest a great American, a great patriot, an extraordinary Senator, Ted Stevens. I had the privilege of serving with Senator Stevens for 13 years. In that time, he impressed…

It seems that, wittingly or unwittingly, we created a system that it's much harder to hire a full-time DOD employee than it is to write a contract worth 10 or 20 times more.

So, besides just the value of efficiency and productivity gains, this is also about freeing up resources and continuing operations overseas and support the fighting forces.

Senator Vitter had a hearing in Louisiana. In fact, he asked me if he could do that and I agreed to allow him to do it.

I am grateful to Senator Shelby and Senator Vitter for raising the spectrum of this particular question.

Today's hearing builds on those and reflects our work with Ranking Member Richard Shelby.

we are at a critical juncture in proceeding to the National Defense Authorization Act. This bill is routinely taken up every year. I want to emphasize again, we are at the first step. This is just a motion to go forward to begin to debate…

I think we are all coming to the conclusion that they don't believe we are serious.

I understand--and correct me if I'm incorrect--that the Chinese were not aware beforehand of this attack.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Do we know anything about it?

I think the only way that we will begin to be viewed more seriously is if we start moving legislation here in this Congress that has more teeth.

we have been debating for weeks now a needed solution to our economic recovery in the United States. We have seen some progress, but it is a long and difficult journey for American families. The depth of the crisis that materialized in the…

For the record, Mr. Chairman, I would like to follow the Corker rule.

I rise in wholehearted support of Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nomination to be our next Supreme Court Justice. She has had an illustrious legal career that includes clerking for Judge Abner Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…

I join my colleague from Rhode Island who, with eloquence and passion, has clearly highlighted a disturbing phenomenon taking place in this Chamber. Well-qualified individuals who have received the support of the Judiciary Committee--in…

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