Sheldon Whitehouse

It applies to every single type of debt, including debts that the banks hold, except for one kind, and that is the poor residential mortgage holder.

But don't we have, in effect, a capital liability to fix that bridge, that if we were accounting in a full kind of all-in way, we would recognize some way?

The personal cost of these foreclosures really comes home to roost on people in ways that are agonizing.

Although the efficiency of the American bankruptcy system has been one of the great assets of our economy.

Medicare is the big item, to quote you, Dr. Johnson.

The stories are just appalling.

It would be a human tragedy to do so, and we can avoid it if we are responsible about delivery system reform in the time that we now have.

I just want to push back a little bit against what I thought was your implied theory that this would be something novel or peculiar if we allowed this to happen.

Like Ronald Reagan, I intend to trust but verify.

It is sickening, frankly, not to have it straightened out.

In the economic race to remain dominant in this emerging and fast growing international market, there are actually two races we need to win.

It is fair to conclude that investment in this emerging technology provides cumulative benefits as we enhance our competitive position.

We have seen a considerable number of technologies in which American ingenuity invented the technology, but foreign countries took advantage of the development phase.

I would like you to put Government support for solar industry in the context of the development of that industry in international competition and the role of technological leadership in securing future economic opportunity and advantage.

I am not confident that the military tribunal is, by definition, the better way to go.

I disagree with him that the military tribunal is the right answer in every case; I disagree with him that Mirandizing people is the wrong answer in every case.

I agree with Senator Sessions about the importance of there being a rigorous and formal method for making the determination as to whether a case should proceed in civilian courts or in military tribunals.

I will now call on Senator Mark Udall of Colorado to make an introduction of his nominee.

Before we conclude the hearing, I would like to add into the record of this proceeding the statement of our distinguished Chairman, Senator Patrick Leahy, in favor of these nominees.

Thank you for your statement. I know how busy you are as our Majority Whip and Assistant Majority Leader.

Voting to confirm an individual to the Federal bench is one of the most important and lasting decisions that a Senator can make.

History has shown that what is right and what is popular may from time to time diverge

Judges must respect the role of Congress as representatives of the American people; decide cases based on the law and the facts.

I meant mandatory testing of every single violent criminal.

That is the area where the prioritization would make the most sense?