the voices of the polluters and the polluting industries still prevail on the question of climate change.

So, if we wonder why the Senate is the last place in America that still does not get it, that climate change is a real problem for our people and that carbon pollution is something that people should pay for when the emit it, big…

I honestly believe at this point without that we do not have a chance of passing a significant climate change bill here.

The family farmer with the cattle pond can rest assured.

It actually gives me goose bumps to think about the path that has brought you here today.

I particularly reject the analogy of a judge to an 'umpire' who merely calls 'balls and strikes.'

These calls for restraint and modesty, and complaints about 'activist' judges, are often codewords, seeking a particular kind of judge who will deliver a particular set of political outcomes.

And so when we come to this distinguished Committee and say that this was in keeping with the practice of the Second Circuit, we have looked at it in every way that we possibly can to ensure what took place.

It is fair to inquire into a nominee's judicial philosophy, and we will here have a serious and fair inquiry.

I think that homeland security was favored at the expense of hometown security, and there is, I think, a reasonable case to be made that it was done for political purposes to make America look like it was on a wartime footing.

I would love to get to a place where the State and local folks who are enforcing that prerogative are doing a little bit less scratching of their heads as to why the Federal Government is putting so much money into things that they…

I want to share with you my concern that the classified elements of the previous administration's cyber strategy in my view put us on a collision course with very basic civil liberties questions if the trajectory is not adjusted and…