I do have to tell you, history has showed--and it was a fairly blunt instrument, what the FCC did, 31 years ago...

I made a lot of money, because they were wrong.

I know this debate about unlocking phones is important, but if you don't have interoperability, it doesn't matter if you unlock.

This is a voice that will be needed in the Administration and will help us again--help this economy recover, and focus again on greater job creation.

My hope is you will, one, as my time ticks down, look at streamlining all programmatic areas within the Commerce Department.

I personally believe that we ought to give the President's--this President and future presidents the ability that any Governor has had to do executive reorganization.

I think we are all concerned that entrepreneurs are victims more and more often of patent trolls.

I rise in strong support of S. Res. 65, a resolution which sends Israel, Iran, and the region a clear message: We stand with our friends in Israel as they face the looming threat of a nuclear-capable Iran. I thank Senators Graham and…

I appreciate the courtesy of the Senator from Oklahoma, recognizing that he has other accommodations he has to deal with. I ask unanimous consent I be granted up to 4 minutes to speak after the Senator from Oklahoma completes his comments…

I thank the Senator from Oklahoma and wish him good travels. I rise briefly today to point out one more time some of the ramifications of the policy I have repeatedly called stupidity on steroids, which is our sequestration policy. Word…

I thank the Senator. But reserving the right to object, is that before or after the remarks of the Senator from Oklahoma?

Reserving the right to object, I believe I was listed in the queue a bit earlier than that, but I only have a 3- or 4-minute statement. I do not mind trading off, but I, similar to others, was told the time was right after the vote that I…

I thank the Senator. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Utah. ____________________

I want to, first of all, commend the Senator from Utah for his comments. We all know the Senator from Utah, like myself, has a real interest in making sure our government is more efficient and more effective in its operations, and know, as…

One of the things that I find that is so frustrating is we do not measure these programs' effectiveness against each other.

I want to also acknowledge my good friend, Senator Crapo, who I have spent countless hours as we have talked about how do we get our spending and debt and deficit under control.

I believe very strongly that our Federal Government-- and I did not come to this totally as a neophyte.

I want to thank Chairman Murray for allowing this task force to continue.

How does this pass the smell test? Why isn't this information more known that we have a system that is so kind of out of whack?

You cannot get good value for your dollar if you have got limited resources that we have around wind energy spread amongst 82 different programs in six different agencies.

this DATA Act that Senator Warner has introduced and I am the cosponsor of we think is helpful because we think it does create more transparency

This should be an area where I think there should be a great deal of bipartisan accord.

We have got to do a better job of figuring out and decoding for the American public, how our Federal dollars are actually spent and what kind of value we get for the buck.

I was originally hoping that we would move towards even greater requirement of moving towards a more single financial standard.

It seems like we do not go 6 months without another crisis/scandal coming out of the banking industry.