I have to tell you that that does not mean that the need for post-conviction DNA testing is being diminished.

We would have thought that by now we would have seen a curtailing of the rate of post-conviction DNA exonerations.

I believe that the system works better for all involved when each side is represented well and all evidence is considered.

You want to convict the guilty. You do not want to make a mistake on getting an innocent person in there.

Today, the Judiciary Committee is going to focus on a vital component of our jurisdiction, which, of course, is to ensure that our criminal justice system works fairly and effectively to advance justice.

I introduced the Innocence Protection Act in 2000 with the primary goal of making sure that death penalty cases are conducted fairly.

Not every case has DNA.

I am especially pleased that we will be able to welcome to the Judiciary Committee today Judge Christina Reiss from Essex Junction, Vermont.

I would hope that those who, like myself, are in favor of the public option or those who feel that they should oppose the President on health care, whatever thing, I would hope both sides would agree on one issue: that health care fraud is…

I have found over the years that so many times these areas of fraud, whether in this area or in military contracting or any other area, the most important information often comes from an insider, from a whistleblower through the False…

Senator Grassley's work in this, and he and I and Senator Kaufman and others worked over many years to strengthen this anti-fraud tool, and we passed the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009.

Thank you very much, and I apologize. I went over my time. I was not paying attention.

On rooting out fraud you are going to have strong bipartisan support here in the Senate.

We have to work together to ensure that we have tough and effective measures in place to prevent health care fraud and provide accountability.

I will ask consent to put in the record a letter from the American Hospital Association...

The insurance companies apparently do, according to what Senator Reid and others have said.

I want to commend him for holding this hearing.

Without a repeal of the antitrust exemption, insurance companies will continue to have the power to gouge patients and doctors.

I believe it would lead to more competition and lower insurance costs, and basically what it says is that nobody is above the law.

I will also ask consent to put in the record a resolution from the National Association of Attorneys General...

the insurance industry's exemption from the Federal antitrust laws... has served the financial interests of the insurance industry, but I do not see where it has helped the consumers at all.

The legislation I introduced, the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act, only repeals the McCarran-Ferguson exemption for what I think we would all agree are egregious violations of the antitrust laws--price fixing and bid…

I am glad to see the administration taking antitrust enforcement so seriously.

I thank you both, and we are not beating a hasty departure based on your testimony, but based on the fact we have run out of time on the vote on the floor.

The lack of affordable health insurance plagues families throughout our country.