Sheldon Whitehouse

We expect judges to decide cases based on the law and the facts.

Let me go out of my way to welcome Kamala Harris, the State Attorney General of California.

I think as a matter of law any witness who is testifying before Congress is deemed to be sworn.

We expect judges to limit themselves to the issues that the court must decide.

I thank my Ranking Member for his attention to an issue that I know commands his passion.

Confirming an outstanding nominee like Mr. West to that position as quickly as possible will help ensure the smooth running of the Department.

I will forbear from making my opening statement with regard to these two nominees.

I have a great deal of not only respect for Ranking Member Grassley, but also a great deal of gratitude to him.

I have had a hearing that I think has highlighted my concern that there are violations of fairly simple laws, like 18 U.S. Code 1001, the false statements law.

I think very, very highly of him, and I have two questions that I will ask of you.

I wish to thank the distinguished Senator from Illinois for his statement. We serve together on the Judiciary Committee. I hope that in that committee as well we can work on ways to improve the prosecution--particularly of rape offenses…

And we need to turn that upside down so that it is most convenient for the public to get this information.

I would love to be able to work with my colleagues on that Committee to try to reduce some of the dead hands reaching from the past that were based in a political defeat for somebody

But usually I think we have got it completely backwards.

If you are a legislator and you lose the substantive fight that you would like to win, very often your consolation prize is a reporting requirement;

Credit really goes to former Chairman Conrad for doing this.

I just want to say how honored I am to serve on Senator Boxer's committee with her as our chairman and leader and how eager I am to fight beside her in the struggles ahead. With that, with my appreciation, I yield the floor.

I appreciate the chairman's leadership and her offer of 5 minutes of time. I will not need anything near that. I want to take this moment to extend to all of my colleagues a very heartfelt thank you for that last vote. I yield the floor…

If you are looking at a company, it is in one of two categories: It either has been hacked and knows it, or it has been hacked and does not know it.

I will accept Senator Graham's invitation or suggestion that we try to come up with something on visas, perhaps in the framework of the immigration bill that is now pending.

I would ask you for your commitment to work with us in drafting appropriate legislation that will allow you to have more authority and proper safeguards.

Senator Graham and I came very close to having a bipartisan agreement on a cyber bill.

These innovations have been accompanied by new threats to our prosperity, to our privacy, to our intellectual property, to our very national security.

We need to have our Eliot Ness moment on this and get ready to put the resources into this problem set.

China is using its computer network exploitation capability to support intelligence collection against the U.S. diplomatic, economic, and defense industrial base sectors.