As a Senator I have to say that this is the--after sending troops in harms way which is always the toughest decision for a Senator to make, how we vote on Supreme Court nominees is clearly the most important thing we have to do.

This is a particularly difficult thing for a lot of us, because you cannot help but like Elena Kagan.

I personally think that's wrong. And I think you've made a fairly decent case here today that it is wrong.

General Kagan told us yesterday that she characterized ACOG's original no circumstances language as a disaster, because it did not accurately reflect ACOG's own medical position.

That's my point. I mean, I agree with you on that.

I think they should have overruled Austin.

I'll always argue on the part of the First Amendment if I can.

It's even beyond that.

I do not see how anyone can justify a citation to actions outside the country as any authority whatsoever to define what Americans have done.

Americans believe that you only govern with the consent of the governed and we have not consented to be governed by Europe or any other advanced nation.

I know you have all sincerely given us the best you can.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I appreciate it.

The President, I think as Senator McCain said is a legal progressive.

I'm just grateful for all these witnesses and appreciate their testimony here today.

The disaster would be, if the statement did not accurately reflect all of what ACOG thought.

the law requires the same access for the military as other employers.

What ACOG thought was that, on the one hand, they couldn't think of a circumstance in which this procedure was the absolutely only procedure that could be used in a given case.

it would be a disaster