Patrick Leahy

Housing is very tight and very expensive there by Vermont standards.

I support as much transparency as we can.

We obviously need professionals who are trained to identify victims and make sure they are treated properly.

As Chairman Leahy said earlier, in today's economic times the needs are increasing, but the resources are drying up.

We must do everything in our power to help victims of abuse and domestic violence, and that is why this bill must be reauthorized.

Despite this progress, our country still has a long way to go.

The Violence Against Women Act has helped to transform our criminal justice system.

I was proud to work with then-Senator Biden and Senator Hatch to achieve this progress.

I appreciate you being here. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Reserving the right to object, I will not object. But insofar as many had planned to be here for the 12 o'clock scheduled votes, could the Senator from Florida tell me how long he wishes to take?

Every American who hears the word 'jury' and has the phrase 'runaway jury' jump into their mind... has been the successful subject of a long campaign of indoctrination about this and of public communication.

There is clearly a strong institutional incentive there, and you have also seen very strong institutional behavior from the big multinational corporations and others trying to deprecate as much as they can and make Americans believe that…

I think it is regrettable that there appears to be this steady addition of troubles, toils and snares by the Supreme Court on Americans' road to a jury, which is a, to me, baseline constitutional American institution of government.

I have a lot more questions, but I run the clock on myself, too.

Some have said the Janus decision provides Wall Street companies with a license to lie.

But, unfortunately, I believe these protections are being eroded by an activist court and, actually, the most business-friendly Supreme Court in the last 75 years.

In both my time in the Senate and previous career as a prosecutor, I always felt people who did the wrongdoing should be held responsible.

I believe that the ability of Americans to band together to hold corporations accountable when these things occur has been seriously undermined by the Supreme Court.

Through this decision, a narrow majority of five justices have, again, made it harder to hold corporations accountable under our historic civil rights laws.

In my view, each of these decisions give corporations additional power to act in their own self-interests and each limits the ability of Americans to have their day in court.

I applaud Chairman Leahy for holding this hearing.

I believe it is a matter of fairness. And for whatever time I have left in the Senate, I will fight, along with Senator Durbin, for it.

That really does not sound like amnesty.

Allowing these young people to serve America in their journey to become Americans is something we should all support.