I apologize for being late.

I hope we have the same bipartisanship again.

It is a great honor for me to have the chance to introduce Sol Rodriguez.

It gives me a sense of confidence, when I go home to Vermont.

today the Senate has passed important bipartisan legislation to reduce the chilling effect that foreign libel lawsuits are having on Americans' first amendment rights. I am the son of printers and I consider this a matter of great…

today I am pleased to join my colleague and good friend Senator Sanders to introduce the boundary expansion of the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in the State of Vermont. This amendment will add 159 acres and several…

I strongly support the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The American people often are cynical, with good reason, about the success that powerful corporate interests have in trumping the interests and…

The crack and powder cocaine disparity has bothered me greatly.

I think it is unfair.

We are going to proceed today on only 1 of the 22 judicial nominations that have been stalled on the Senate floor by Republican obstruction. This is a nominee we considered and voted out of the Judiciary Committee unanimously 3 months ago…

We are taking the law and bending it as far as we can to capture a whole new class of guns.

I would like to see a Supreme Court justice who is able to go into the back room where the justices meet and where no ordinary citizens are present and bring some real world perspective to the room.

There is nothing equal by separate and we know that today.

I rise today to recognize COL Phil Skuta, USMC, who will complete his tour of duty with the U.S. Marine Corps' Office of Legislative Affairs on July 15, 2010. In his role as the director of the Marine Corps' Senate Liaison Office, he has…

I respect your plight and I take so seriously which you pledge to all of us here that you will do your best to consider every case impartially, modestly, with a commitment to principle in accordance with law.

Thank you. My brother-in-law was a teacher--he is a Holy Cross priest, and he was a teacher there for some time.

I believe the country needs and deserves a Supreme Court that bases its decision on the law and the Constitution, not politics or ideological agenda by either the right or the left.

The Supreme Court, in Brown v. Board of Education, rejected the notion of separate but equal, and helped move our Nation forward toward a more perfect union.

I was really shocked by former Chief Justice Rehnquist's position on the Laird case.

I don't see anything wrong with seeing the way the treaty has been interpreted in other countries.

It's very difficult for us to legislate--to pass legislation to expand rights.

After this hearing is over, I hope the American people will understand that elections do matter.

I know we felt that way, my wife and I felt that way about our son. We worried about him in the Marine Corps, but we were so proud of what he was doing.

I am hopeful that your background and experiences, to use the words of Teddy Roosevelt, 'the experiences of someone who has actually been in the arena' will help you be that person.

If you believe that you have a right to fall in love and get married to whomever you wish, you are mostly correct, but only because the Supreme Court intervened on the side of the America people, when it ruled in Loving v. Virginia that…