Orrin Hatch: “I appreciate the joy and the verve with which you run New York City.”

This is a long-overdue nomination.

Without adequate mens rea protections, that is, without the requirement that a person knows his conduct was wrong or unlawful, everyday citizens can be held criminally liable for a conduct that no reasonable person would know was wrong.

I had introduced legislation known as the CLOUD Act to resolve this issue.

Those backlogs at the Social Security Administration are unacceptable to many, if not most, of us here in the Senate.