It strikes me, Professor Drahozal, that there is a lot of import to the statement that you made--I think I have it exactly right because I wrote it down just as you said it--'nobody is going to agree post-dispute to an arbitration clause.'

How often do you suppose it is the business in a large-scale consumer arbitration clause that--empirically, how often do you think it is the business that loses as the result of that rather than the consumer once the--

this evening, I cast my vote in favor of the Senate moving forward with critical job-creation legislation. With 61,000 Rhode Islanders and millions of Americans currently looking for jobs, we must take swift action to help put people back…

I rise today to speak in support of the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 2011, and I would note the presence on the floor of one of its principal sponsors, Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, whom I have been very pleased to work…

Is it an important piece of our governmental architecture as well as opposed to our dispute resolution system?

Rhode Island has done a very good job of addressing the point source for nutrient, the point sources for nutrient, that have contaminated Narragansett Bay and Mount Hope Bay for a long time.

I am wondering what you feel the authorities are that you have right now with respect to green infrastructure and whether you consider that to be a promising means of trying to protect our waterways from the nutrient pollution that we are…

I would love to have you say a few words on how the framework for State nutrient reduction process that we have been talking about can utilize a watershed approach in those instances where you have multi-State participation in the…

the job market these days is tough. I have heard from countless Rhode Islanders who have worked all their life, but who have lost their jobs and are now struggling to make ends meet. Sadly, many of these jobs have been lost because big…

this February I joined with colleagues from both sides of the aisle to offer an amendment to the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Act to secure aircraft cockpits by making it a Federal criminal offense to knowingly aim the…

The hearing will come to order.

I think that is something that the Attorney General should attend to with considerable dispatch and attention.

it is a great honor and a great pleasure to join my senior Senator Jack Reed in welcoming Rabbi Leslie Gutterman from Providence, RI, here onto the Senate floor to open the Senate on this day by leading us in prayer. Rabbi Gutterman is a…

we all traveled over to the House Chamber a few days ago to hear President Obama present his jobs plan, a jobs plan for which I intend to support and fight. But during the course of that speech, we also heard the President indicate that he…

today I rise to offer my support for the President's request for immediate supplemental assistance for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. This funding will enable FEMA to continue to provide critical aid to victims left in the wake…

But that doesn't take away from the fundamental problem, that a great number of people who don't have access to health insurance have health consequences in their lives from not having health insurance.

What's tragic about this is that it's not for lack of funding into the healthcare system that this takes place.

I rise today to speak in favor of H.R. 1249, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. This is a vital piece of job-creating legislation and I urge my colleagues to support it. Before I turn to the merits of the bill, let me start by applauding…

When DNI Clapper had his confirmation hearing in the Intelligence Committee, he listed the threats to America's national security. The No. 1 was cyber.

I wish you well as you go through the confirmation process under the leadership of Chairman Leahy and Ranking Member Grassley.

I congratulate you on the recommendation by my colleagues and your selection by the President of the United States as a candidate for a lifetime appointment on the U.S. Judiciary.

I am just worried that we are going to pass this bill as it ends up being amended, that it will go into effect, and we are going to pat ourselves on the back for having done something good about protecting America from cyber crime and from…

I am here this afternoon to discuss our work toward addressing the national debt and staving off a collision with our debt ceiling or a default on our financial obligations. First, I wish to commend Majority Leader Reid for putting forward…

I yield the floor, and I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama.

I am about to yield the floor to my distinguished senior Senator Jack Reed. I ask unanimous consent at the conclusion of his remarks I be granted recognition. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The PRESIDING…