That does not excuse the original person. Under the criminal law, if you are a fence...

Transparency has stability value then.

What I see is that in my State the damage that began on Wall Street and then washed like a financial tsunami across the country, we are still digging out from, and we are in no mood to allow this to happen again.

I would hope we could find support for this from the other side of the aisle. I do not see this as an exclusively Democratic issue. If you look at the arguments that have been made by all of us on the floor just now for it--Senator Sanders…

That is the beauty of the secret hold. They never have to tell that they are leveraging a nominee to get something they want out of an agency. That is why we need to end the secret hold. Simple.

If that is not a great example of obstructionism for the sake of obstructing, I cannot think of a better one--forcing the Senate to take days to confirm unanimously a nominee after they have held for a long period of time.

I have to believe that most times people secretly hold a nominee because they want something from an agency. In fact, I had a Member actually acknowledge to me: I don't care what happens to that nominee, but I need something from this…

I wish to commend Chairman Dodd and Chairman Lincoln for their hard work in crafting a strong Wall Street reform bill. The collapse of the housing market in 2008 and the resulting recession, near depression, was painful evidence that our…

But there are certain traditions around here, frankly, that are more like a bad habit. The tradition of comity is wonderful. The tradition of debate is wonderful. The tradition of collegiality is wonderful, the tradition of seniority and…

The system by which credit card companies get consumers into these high-interest rate predicaments is no accident. It is a system and it has been carefully designed by the credit card companies, beginning with the way they write the…

Is it a fair statement of mine to put, ``Gosh, we released four'' into the context of, ``Yeah, but we are holding 84''? That is the way the ratio works right now; does it not?

Senators Tom Udall of New Mexico and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island met with the delegation.

I am here because for the second day in a row the Republican minority has once again sided with the Wall Street bankers and taken their side in the battle the American people want us to have to clean up Wall Street and see to it that the…

We see it in habitat shift as warming coastal waters change the habitat and the species that can live there.

we are now, for those who are tuning in, in a situation in which the Republicans who filibustered probably about 100 times in this session, are now filibustering not a piece of legislation, they are filibustering the ordinary procedural…

I appreciate your keen interest in coastal matters.

Restoring the rivers is a real priority, and things like fish ladders are very important.

We share the characteristic of representing States that get a climate change double whammy.

These things really matter to us, and I would appreciate all of the attention that you can give to them.

Fish passages, eel grass beds, those sorts of things that are really tangible make a significant difference.

I want to thank you for your visit to Rhode Island after our flooding.

I look forward to working with you on it, and the statistic that I have heard is that 80 percent of the cyber attacks that America sustains that succeed could be blocked if people simply took very basic, very common, standard preventive…

So I would encourage you to find a way to put the Coastal Program into that initiative if it is not in it already.

I contend that cyber piracy is the biggest transfer, the biggest theft of value in the history of humankind, and we are on the losing end of it.

We see it through sea level rise, which even small increments of sea level rise can produce really significant effects.