I was disappointed in the multiple delays in the decision.
I'm also worried about all of the related decisions, the military construction actions that have to be taken.
With the prospect of sequestration and a much tighter defense budget in coming years, do you believe that the military s...
I would prefer that you recess now.
the U.S. Government will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens
I think every one of us, both here in this room and everyone watching on television, has been horrified by the incidents...
I do not want to give up my handguns.
So if we restrict access to these guns, we are limiting the ability of individual Americans, law-abiding Americans, to u...
It would be my preference if we could find a way to put an end to events like this, without doing violence to the Consti...
One of the arguments that I have frequently heard for making this type of weapon illegal... is that weapons like these a...
We need to move back toward greater possibility for civil commitment for the dangerously, violently mentally ill.
Probably a merciful approach to take under the circumstances.
I think, of all of our obligations as Senators, there is none more important than making sure that our federal courts ar...
The Constitution places in the Senate the authority to advise and consent the President on the President's nominees, and...
That's certainly--certainly is how it should work and I suppose consistent with the judges' oath that federal judges mus...
It is emphatically the duty and the province of the courts to say what the law is.
I strongly disagreed with that action and disputed the President's authority to make that as a recess appointment
We do need to point out at the same time that currently 54 out of the 90 judicial vacancies open in the United States ar...