Patrick Leahy

I think that we can all agree on.

I considered myself a pretty confident, effective prosecutor, but, boy, I always wanted to make sure that I did not convict the innocent.

I am communicating continually with Senator Leahy's staffers to make continual improvement.

Senator Leahy, who for the last decade or more has been the staunchest advocate of wrongful conviction reform.

The law enforcement community appreciates the opportunity to work with Senator Leahy and his staff to develop a workable solution that supports the needs of the forensic science community.

Collectively, law enforcement appreciates that Senator Leahy and his staff recognize that the collaborative efforts of all stakeholders are a critical component of this legislation.

I feel that we wanted to help exonerate the innocent, but we also wanted to help convict the guilty.

It is important for everybody in the criminal justice system--the judges, the lawyers, detectives--to be properly trained

Well, thank you, and I appreciate your willingness to continue working with me and with my staff because we do want something that is going to work for all involved.

The Justice Department is well positioned to play this central role.

I think there is widespread acknowledgment that every forensic laboratory nationwide should be accredited under recognized national standards.

Although Senator Grassley is here, he had to step back out for a minute, so we can start.

I would trust the adversarial court system before I trusted the Federal bureaucracy.

We want the accurate science. Forensic science is not designed to help one side or the other.

They do it, as I stated yesterday on the floor of the Senate, by spying on dissenters.

But I am concerned that the recent trend of seeking exclusion orders from the International Trade Commission rather than negotiating and seeking license fees is going to have the opposite effect.

An inventor, somebody who has worked hard, should be compensated for what they did.

I have long championed the strong enforcement of our intellectual property laws because enabling inventors to profit from their work encourages innovation.

I do not have a huge amount of sympathy for.

I apologize for being late. We go through a city that will spend millions of dollars to enforce parking meters...

Can we do more to stop the harassing of companies by people who just bought up the patents just for the sake of litigation?

This is not a partisan issue. Patent reform is a bipartisan issue.

I know the distinguished majority leader has been working very hard to accommodate Senators in a vote. I know he has the support of every member of our caucus in doing that. I believe I heard the distinguished leader say we will come in at…

Congress should pass this bill, and we encourage the Committee to further consider how the EB-5 program may synergistically advance our national goal of energy independence.

We need a uniform law, particularly on the federal level, to ensure that we do have this type of enforcement by the Federal Government