Your service on the district court and on the circuit court provides excellent background and qualifications for this position.

I think when that support is bipartisan, as it is in your case, it highlights once again the institutional value in this body of deferring to and giving great weight to the recommendations of the home State Senators.

The purpose of medicine is to take care of the sick and when that purpose is not being met... a secondary purpose is interfering with a primary purpose.

We cannot have elderly people lying alone, racked with pain, when medicine to cure that... is at hand, because of bureaucracy.

I have never had any more support shown in a bipartisan way for the nomination of Judge Steve Jones.

let me first thank the Senator from Michigan who has worked so long and hard on this. We do, indeed, have in Rhode Island the distinction of being in the top three or four States for unemployment for month after month after month. Rhode…

I would tend to agree with Senator Sessions on this, and I think a lot of it has to do with resources.

Another week has gone by in which the Senate has taken no action whatsoever with respect to the continuing pollution of our atmosphere by carbon, which we subsidize by allowing our biggest polluters to do it without cost or consequence…

I rise today to speak about a type of corruption in the political arena. I am talking about the corrosive and distorting effects of immense aggregations of wealth that are accumulated with the help of the corporate forum and that have…

I would like to echo your message to the administration that this is--it is getting a little late to come before a Congressional Committee and not have a point of view and not have a proposal.

I appreciate the discussion that has taken place, particularly with respect to e-mail, that I think is confounding to even experts.

I am extremely strongly in favor of pushing as much of this to the private sector as possible.

a vast majority of our cyber vulnerability would disappear if we could simply get up to basic public, regular, ordinary levels of patching and security

this Saturday I will attend the 17th annual America's Cup Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Newport, RI. Today, I would like to congratulate this year's inductees: Simon Daubney, Warwick Fleury, Murray Jones, Dean Phipps, Mike Drummond…

Mr. President, we are now at the end of this work period, and we will shortly be going back to our home States for our home work during the August recess from Washington. We are doing so without having done anything about our dependence on…

To go back to bioaccumulation, once you have combined the dispersants and the oil, and now it is being taken up by the bottom level food chain species together, are you equally confident that the bioaccumulation problem is as minimal as it…

I applaud Senator Lautenberg's efforts in drafting a more reasoned alternative to the House bill.

But that shouldn't happen in the deep sea, the attachment to detritus.

But the Government ought to have some oversight.

When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, it took 11 lives and triggered a chain of events that have led to what may be the largest and most destructive environmental disaster in our history.

I thank the witnesses for being here.

Let me, if I may, Senator, just add.

I am purposely focusing on, as I often say, the data, the data, the data.

I have been listening off and on throughout the day to the debate that has taken place on the Senate floor regarding her nomination and I have heard over and over concerns expressed--particularly from the other side of the aisle--about…

What is going to happen to this process so that an evaluation moment by somebody in Government takes place before a chemical gets dispersed into the environment with the nominal word approved attached to it, which I think led a lot of…