This trust system was designed to relieve pressure on the courts, allow businesses to emerge from Chapter 11 and continue operations.

The Judiciary Committee had more legislation under its primary jurisdiction enacted into law than any other House committee.

We also expect to increase the committee's efforts to engage in aggressive oversight this Congress.

Cigarette trafficking is a very lucrative crime both here in the United States and abroad. It is estimated that illicit cigarettes account for over 10 percent of the more than 5.7 trillion cigarettes sold globally each year. Here in the…

We are already hard at work on immigration reform, and we are going to continue that.

I appreciate the opportunity to testify on the Judiciary Committee's budget for the first session of the 113th Congress.

I will close simply by saying cigarette smuggling is a serious problem and revenues lost to the territories that Mr. Faleomavaega and others represent are lost revenues that they can use to meet legitimate obligations, and we want to help…

Ranking Member Conyers and I would like to make the case before you today that the Judiciary Committee is deserving of the maximum amount of funds that you can dedicate to it.

I respectfully request that when allocating funds to committees, you take into account the legislative burden of the committee.

The Judiciary Committee reported 77 bills and resolutions to the House, with accompanying legislative reports on all but a few.

We would be happy to. We have given our overall budget recommendations, and we would ask that consideration be given for that.

I think that the obligation, no matter which party has the majority and who is chair, that that is the history of the committee, all of the testimony ought to be available on the Web site for all of the subcommittees.

So I think that is perhaps the single biggest danger out there right now, although there are plenty to choose from.

I quite frankly think that whether by deliberate act of the Congress writing legislation that is giving tremendous authority to the executive branch... there has been a dramatic shift in power here in Washington between the legislative…

This litigiousness has created what amounts to a 'tort tax,' which imposes an added cost on every product Americans purchase and every service we consume.

Unfortunately, the United States has become the world's most litigious country.

We are the best place in the world to live and we got the best stuff here, and our civil justice systems is the envy of the world.

I believe that this hearing will help shine more light on how our tort system burdens the U.S. economy.

There has been a dramatic shift in power here in Washington between the legislative branch and the executive branch.

America is not like the other countries. America is in fact the best country in the world.

We need to have a tort system and a civil justice system that is like these other countries.

With America's facing high unemployment and stagnant economic growth, it is the role of every congressional committee to do its part to get America moving again.

I want to commend you, and I want to commend Congressman Young of Indiana for his efforts in introducing this legislation.

We need to reform our broken immigration system. We can do it all.

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