today, the Senate will conclude debate on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, S. 3414. Developing a comprehensive strategy for cybersecurity is one of the most pressing challenges facing our Nation. I commend President Obama for his commitment…

more than eight months ago, Senator Crapo and I, two Senators from very different parts of the country with very different political perspectives, joined together to introduce the Leahy-Crapo Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of…

I ask unanimous consent that Jeanette Quick, a detailee on the Banking Committee staff, as well as Ingianni Acosta and Georgina Cannan, two interns on Senator Johnson's staff, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of today's…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act

I ask unanimous consent that Jasper Craven of my staff be given the privileges of the floor for the rest of today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Sentencing reform works. Taxpayer dollars can be used more efficiently to prevent crime rather than just build more prisons.

I am pleased to join with Senator Grassley and today introduce the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act. This legislation will provide important protections to employees who come forward and disclose to law enforcement price fixing and…

We find more and more people incarcerated for longer and longer, but what I am hearing from Governors of both parties...

I cannot in good conscience say that anything less than the many years he received is appropriate punishment.

I worry that we get into these same kinds of things here. I worry, of course, about the cost to the taxpayer.

For nonviolent offenders, simply imprisoning them for long terms does not help reduce recidivism.

I want to speak very briefly about recent events in El Salvador which is in the midst of a constitutional and political crisis involving the composition and power of the Supreme Court. Essentially what happened is that in June the Supreme…

Last week, the Judiciary Committee considered S.3276, a bill reauthorizing the surveillance provisions of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which is set to expire at the end of this year. The Director of National Intelligence and the…

Now the House Republican leadership is hiding behind a procedural technicality as an excuse to avoid debate on the Senate bill. That is nonsense. We all know the Speaker of the House could waive the technicality, called a blue slip and…

I know we are soon going to be voting on other matters, and I see the distinguished senior Senator from Florida, who wishes to speak, so I will not take long. However, there is one area I don't want people to forget about; that is, the…

I want to thank, of course, the majority leader and the Republican leader, friends with whom I have served for years--and we have always been friends--for their kind words. I want to thank my colleague from Vermont, another dear friend…

victims shouldn't be forced to wait any longer. The problems and barriers facing victims of domestic and sexual violence are too serious for Congress to delay. I think of my home State of Vermont and the very small State that it is, but…

Notwithstanding some grandstanding we have seen since then, I think it has been a good thing for the American public to see how we deliberate.

deterrence is all about withholding the weapon, not about using the weapon.

We want to make sure that as we reduce nuclear weapons we're not left with what amounts to a collection of wet matches.

Vermont boasts many talented artists, creators, composers and authors. Not least among them is Chris Bohjalian of Lincoln, an accomplished writer whose recent novel, The Sandcastle Girls, is drawing the praise and accolades of critics and…

I think it gives the citizens some confidence.

We justify their trust by demonstrating how our Government works to uphold our common values.

I said, 'Well, yes, it happens all the time.'

You do have to keep it out of politics, and would you agree with that, that while a judge might be and should be appreciative, as you were of President Reagan's nomination, your allegiance is to the law, not to the President who nominated…