United States Senate

Changing the rules : will limiting the scope of civil discovery diminish accountability and leave Americans without access to justice

How the hidden costs of federal regulations impact small businesses and economic growth : field hearing before the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Protecting human subjects in research

Biotechnology in Portland

Food safety and security

Monitoring and combating trafficking in persons

The resurgence of heroin use and its effect on youth

Cybercrime

Legislative proposals and issues relevant to the operations of the inspectors general

Chu, Cook, Jarrett, and Watson nominations

California's electricity crisis

Improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System

Suicide awareness and prevention

National Rural Development Council

Schemer [sic], scammers, and sweetheart deals

Enhancing border security

Examining the nuclear posture review

Encouraging innovative and cost-effective crime reduction strategies

Internal Revenue Service progress on initiatives relating to paperless filing, and the feasibility of implementing a return-free system for appropriate taxpayers

Nuclear power industry

The Justice Department's response to international parental kidnaping

The global reach of al-Qaeda

Who cares for the caregivers?

Miscellaneous public lands bills

Default nation

Focusing on children and disasters

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Post-conviction DNA testing

The effects of the economic crisis on community banks and credit unions in rural communities

Somalia

The Russian presidential elections

Increasing our nonproliferation efforts in the former Soviet Union

Airline financial stability

Nomination of Paul A. Quander, Jr.

Achieving the president's objectives

Examination of federal food safety oversight in the wake of peanut products recall

Stem cell research

Oversight of U.S. trade preference programs

What is the U.S. position on offshore tax havens?

Harold Craig Manson nomination

After the dust settles

Responding to homeland threats

An overview of asylum policy

GM and Chrysler dealership closures

Emerging technologies and practices for reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Cuba's pursuit of biological weapons

Saddam's Iraq

The 1996 campaign finance investigations

Improving transparency and accessibility of federal contracting databases

The 2010 trade agenda

Foreign policy overview and the President's fiscal year 2003 foreign affairs budget request

Long-term care financing

The domestic consequences of heroin use

Online entertainment and copyright law

The National intelligence estimate on the ballistic missile threat to the United States

Small business development in Native American communities

President Clinton's eleventh hour pardons

Meeting the workforce needs of American agriculture, farm workers, and the U.S. economy

Climate services

Importance of state and local authorities in ensuring chemical plant security

Education technology

Caribbean drug trafficking

Overview of foreign policy issues and budget

A review of the president's annual certification process

The annual report of the Postmaster General

Carbon cycle research and agriculture's role in reducing climate change

Iran's ballistic missile and weapons of mass destruction programs

Legislative proposals relating to the statute of limitations on claims against the United States related to the management of Indian tribal trust fund accounts

The AOL/Time Warner merger

The Taliban

New Mexico water supply

Department of Defense's implementation of the President's military order on detention treatment and trail by military commission of certain noncitizens in the war on terrorism

Legislative proposals in the Department of Housing and Urban Development's fiscal year 2011 budget request

The failure of Superior Bank, FSB, Hinsdale, Illinois

BPA in promoting energy conservation and renewables

Agricultural competition

U.S.-Mexican relations

Improving energy efficiency through technology and communications

Preparing for reality

Expediency versus integrity

The issuance of semipostal stamps by the U.S. Postal Service

Export control implementation issues with respect to high-performance computers

Nominations of John Ramsey Johnson and Gerald I. Fisher

Saving investors money and strengthening the SEC

Economic development in the Mississippi Delta

Spencer Abraham nomination

Foreign policy priorities in the President's FY10 international affairs budget

Forum on early learning

S. 1008, the Climate Change Strategy and Technology Innovation Act of 2001

The legal, moral, and national security consequences of "prolonged detention"

Nominations of John J. Goglia for reappointment, and Carol J. Carmody for appointment as members of the National Transportation Safety Board

Hawala and underground terrorist financing mechanisms

Hate crime on the internet

Easing the burdens through employment

Pending benefits legislation

S. 809, Online Privacy Protection Act of 1999

Access to prevention and public health for high-risk populations

A system in disarray

Donated organ allocation policy

Agriculture credit