"the extent to which the President can direct the exercise of statutory authority that is vested in someone else in the executive branch is one of the great questions of American constitutional law."
"We heard that the Russians were ready to stand with President Obama on the stage in Pittsburgh along with President Sarkozy and Prime Minister Brown, but the Chinese were reluctant."
"One of our primary responsibilities here on the Senate Judiciary Committee... is to make sure the Federal judiciary has the tools and the resources it needs to perform its crucial role in our constitu..."
"We all recognize the importance of the Federal judiciary in the proper functioning of our democracy and we all want to ensure that the courts have the resources they need to protect our liberties and ..."
"If we don't really, I think, turn the mortgage market, or build on the stability that you have helped provide..."
"We need to take action to restore Americans' confidence--and their financial security--by reforming a regulatory system that still contains far too many gaps, loopholes, and redundancies."
"Am I glad that we had to spend this money? No. Do I share the anger and frustration that many Americans felt and continue to feel that Wall Street greed and regulatory neglect left taxpayers on the ho..."
"It might be sort of urban folklore, but it is a very powerful one."
"We fought to ensure that if ordinary Americans who had done nothing wrong were going to pay for this stabilization effort, they would get to share in the benefits if companies became more profitable."
"I would think that the problem we would have is these funds would run out, not that there is no call on them."
"If these results continue to be as Senator Menendez described, we will do more things legislatively, and hopefully they will be helpful."
"Thank you for your determined and passionate and very thoughtful advocacy in these areas."
"What is the difference between what is required to prove that somebody is an agent of a foreign power?"
"I'm correct that there has never once been an adverse party that showed up in a 215 hearing. Not once."
"The other question in my time remaining has to do with the Lone Wolf provision which as has been indicated, has never been used."
"But he doesn't really have to be one?"
"And yet that remains a nominal requirement for the Lone Wolf authority, doesn't it?"
"Rather than continue to exist in a sort of fairyland in which a burden shifts to an empty chair and we all pretend to be satisfied with that set of procedures, we should maybe try to rethink how to do..."
