Finally, I find it ironic: Here is this very pro-military nominee who is being criticized as somehow being anti-military, being criticized by some of the same Republican Senators who have filibustered and voted against funding for our…

I wish to speak about Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court. I thought it might be good to set the record straight about some of the charges being leveled at President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court…

The Department has effectively confronted national security challenges as part of a coordinated effort across the entire Government.

The No. 2 position is vital to our national security and our system of justice.

We must use every tool we have to fight terrorism. That includes both military commissions and Article III courts.

He has a well-deserved reputation for fairness, integrity, and toughness.

I am pleased to support the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act of 2010 and glad to join the full Senate today in passing this important bill. This legislation will improve the safety of Americans traveling on cruise ships by increasing…

I will oppose the resolution. The resolution of disapproval before us reminds me of a skills competition for young people that has been promoted by the National Football League. It is called Punt, Pass, and Kick. The resolution is an…

today, I introduce the Environmental Crimes Enforcement Act, ECEA, common sense legislation that will ensure that those who destroy the lives and livelihoods of Americans through environmental crime are held accountable. It has been 50…

I have introduced legislation to overturn the Leegin case and restore the ban on vertical price fixing.

today I introduce the Survivors Equality Act to ensure that everyone is treated equally under the Death on the High Seas Act. I thank Senator Whitehouse for joining me in this important effort to provide justice for victims. Earlier today…

I believe this decision is very dangerous to consumers' ability to purchase products at discount prices and it is harmful to retail competition.

3 weeks from now the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold the confirmation hearing for President Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Last…

it is interesting because the Senate is being allowed to confirm only 3 of 19 judicial nominations that have been reported unanimously by the Senate Judiciary Committee over the past several months, but they have been stalled by the…

Why do you drill deep? That is where the oil is.

The Judiciary Committee unanimously reported the nomination of Judge Fleissig to the Eastern District of Missouri more than three months ago, on March 4. She is currently a Federal magistrate judge in that district, previously serving as…

That is perverse, and I think Congress should act to avoid this absurd result.

The tide of corporate money that influences politics stops at the hard square corners of the jury box.

But the deaths are still the same.

I expressed my concern at that time that the Supreme Court's Exxon Valdez decision would encourage corporate misconduct.

The Exxon Court believed that predictability for corporations was more important than deterring misconduct. I disagree.

I insist that, in the future, oil companies do everything they can to prevent needless deaths and catastrophic environmental harm.

No one's life should become an asterisk in somebody's cost/benefit analysis. It is immoral.

You deserve a measure of justice.

It is time we modernized this law again.