In the last Congress, Senator Leahy and I proposed legislation to deal with abusive patent practices directed at small businesses.
Will this not inevitably extend the period of time that it takes to get regulatory approval, given that the rule contemp...
This appears to me to be something that could well be a solution in search of a problem.
If that is the case, if you have got a number of states that do not have any regulations at all and you have got other s...
Thank you Mr. Chairman and thanks to all of you for your testimony it has been very informative today.
And just to be clear, you do not, I take it, have a problem with the Government seizing property that was involved in a ...
The Constitution says that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
Now, many of the problematic forfeitures tend to arise in the context of structuring and the Department of Justice and I...
That is why I am a cosponsor of the FAIR Act, along with my colleague, Senator Rand Paul.
Right. My understanding is that some trace the civil forfeiture laws that we have today back to what was known at common...
The heart of the problem really is to clarify the standard of intent that is required.