In your congressional budget justification there is a statement that USAID is conducting a series of business process reviews...

There is both good news and bad news represented by today's debate. The good news is that we begin another week by considering two of President Obama's judicial nominations. With judicial vacancies remaining over 100, nearly half of them…

I know the Senator has advocated for satellite offices. His amendment speaks for geographic diversity. Otherwise, every one of us would be asking for one in our State. Vermont, which receives more patents per capita than any other State in…

the Senate today is turning its attention to a measure that will help create jobs, energize the economy, and promote innovation. The Patent Reform Act, which has also come to be called the America Invents Act, is a key part of any jobs…

I appreciate the amendment of the Senator from Colorado. When it comes to a vote, I think it will probably be unanimous. I suspect there will not even be a requirement for a rollcall vote. It does have this mandatory reduction in fees for…

I am pleased to join with Senator Cornyn once again to introduce the Public Corruption Prosecution Improvements Act of 2011, a bill that will strengthen and clarify key aspects of Federal criminal law and provide new tools to help…

today I again introduce legislation to correct an inequity in the U.S. Department of Justice's Public Safety Officers Benefits, PSOB, Program, by extending benefits to nonprofit Emergency Medical Services, EMS, providers who die or are…

I find it difficult to understand how supporting all of our Nation's first responders, on an equal basis, exceeds Congress's proper and traditional constitutional role.

I strongly endorse what you have done. I think it is a great move forward.

I am delighted you are here because I know how hard you worked to put together bipartisan coalitions.

The Founders understood this. Americans across the country long understood that corporations are not people in this political process.

It is a lot better than it used to be.

We ought to be heard as Vermonters and not be undercut by corporate spending, but that is exactly what is happening with the waves of corporate money being spent on elections around the country.

Corporations are not the same as individual Americans. Corporations do not have the same rights or the same morals or the same interests.

Our efforts to restore transparency in campaign finance laws were gutted by a narrow conservative activist majority of the Supreme Court and we cannot wait any longer.

I think the Senate is fortunate.

This is a major, major issue. The transfer of wealth that Senator Whitehouse talked about is not overstated.

We are simply not addressing what is particularly in our economy a really catastrophic loss of wealth to the American people.

Advertisers, payment processors, ISPs, anybody who is profiting from this, whether intentionally or not, once put on notice, needs to desist from aiding these illegal enterprises.

I welcome your support for a private right of action, and my hope is that it will be in too big to fail.

I think it is a very important issue.

The legislation will be much more successful if it is worked out in really cooperative fashion.

Remember, this bill passed 19-0 in the Committee last year. We have bipartisan support. It will pass.

The No. 1 most important thing is to make it more difficult for these criminals to find a market here in the United States.

I want to thank the witnesses who are here today to testify about how we can make some progress in the fight against online copyright infringement and also the sale of counterfeit goods.