I think they have got to finally sit down and work with us.

I would rather have legislation move that reflects your interests as well as their interests.

Music, I think, is an invaluable part of all our lives.

the challenge facing us as lawmakers is how to encourage innovation, growth, and competition while at the same time protecting artists, musicians, and authors.

Yes, but what I hear in the letters that your organization asks people to send to me...

I cannot praise Senator Feinstein enough, who has talked to me considerably when we are not in the Committee about the importance of this.

We hope and look forward to a good group of nominations from this administration.

I say to Senator Sessions, who knows what that kind of a caseload is...

This nominee of a Republican has been blocked by the Republican side.

Her nomination to the circuit court is rated unanimously well qualified by the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary.

We need to have a strong Patent Office.

I think the Senators that just testified being strong in their support for these nominees is always most meaningful to me.

There is nothing more important to returning our country to economic health than getting the innovation system working again.

Federal judges across the country, and particularly in California, are carrying a large caseload, backlogs...

I think that's something that is very important to me and we'll ask about it.

It is what is going to create jobs, it is what is going to create the future in our country.

If you are confirmed, as I fully expect you will be, will you work with us members, both Republicans and Democrats, work with us on trying to resolve the final issues in the patent reform legislation?

Send us the best. That is all we want. Send us the best.

the courts are--and they were set up this way by the founders of the country--they are the one undemocratic part of our government.

Jeffrey Viken's wide-ranging experience makes him particularly qualified to serve as a judge.

We tried very hard to have judges looked at as judges and to get out of partisan politics.

Judge Martin is the fourth of President Obama's circuit court nominees to come before the Committee.

I do not know whether to give him congratulations or condolences, because it is going to be one of the toughest jobs in the government.

There is absolutely no excuse for not having moved yet.

I believe the Senate has to do better.