I ask consent for 3 more minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I appreciate your attention to it.

if we pass the Rebuild America Jobs Act, we will immediately invest $50 billion into our transportation infrastructure and generate hundreds of thousands of good jobs and establish a national infrastructure bank which will generate even…

In Rhode Island, our state regulation for these assisted living facilities has a section called 'Rights of Residents.'

You advocated here for a federal assisted living Bill of Rights.

Clearly, there are benefits to arbitration, but it's the sort of thing that should only be undertaken knowingly.

Every day, as we know, overseas criminal networks target Americans, weakening our economic prosperity and compromising our safety.

Today's hearing provides us an opportunity to evaluate our current statutory authorities, law enforcement tools, and resources for protecting the American people from the serious and ever growing threat of international organized crime.

The international organized crime networks we confront today are significantly different from La Cosa Nostra and other criminal networks we confronted in the past.

I hope that as you serve the people of the Ninth Circuit in this role, assuming that you are confirmed, that you will not view with equanimity efforts that deprive people of access to the jury, given its core constitutional role.

Would it be fair to characterize your answer as saying that as a judicial matter the opinion of foreign governments carries no weight?

I would highlight, emphasize, and double underline what Senator Grassley warned you about the importance of prompt answers.

I will ask unanimous consent that Chairman Leahy's statement in support of your nomination be incorporated into the record.

Let me congratulate you on your period of service to our country.

I think you've acquitted yourself very well in this hearing and I look forward to supporting your nomination as we go forward.

I contend that we are on the losing end of the single greatest transfer of wealth through piracy and illicit behavior in the history of humankind, and we are doing awfully little about it.

It is interesting to me, as a Senator from a small New England State, to hear some of the discussion from my western colleagues...

We look forward to working with you.

I ask unanimous consent to speak in morning business for 15 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I am here to speak about what is currently an unpopular topic in this town. It has become no longer politically correct in certain circles in Washington to speak about climate change or carbon pollution or how carbon pollution is causing…

I rise today to discuss the three pending trade agreements with Korea, Colombia, and Panama. Let me say at the outset that I am in favor of free trade, if that term is allowed its true meaning. I have great confidence in the American…

But if it is a bigger claim and, therefore, more dangerous to the company, then that is when they push you toward arbitration under the clause?

Well, thank you, Chairman, for your efforts to see that American consumers do get a fair shake.

And if you have one of these consumer take-it-or-leave-it arbitration clauses that are in a general contract, are they limited to small dollar amounts, or do they have a threshold so that if it turns out to actually be a really big deal…

I would love to ask Mr. White what the forecast is for the on-bill financing and what specifically we can do to help National Grid.