I must support efforts to increase the number of stem cell lines derived from spare IVF embryos eligible for federally funded research.

Failure to act on legislation to ban the birth of cloned babies only emboldens such irresponsible groups such as the Raelians.

I also worked closely with Senator Biden--it was the Biden-Hatch Bill--on another law that the Supreme Court has found to be beyond Federal power.

I first would like to acknowledge and thank Senator Leahy for his service as Chairman of this Committee over the past 16 months.

Thank you, Senator Feingold. We are going to give you until 1:30...

Sometimes, that is for sure, and today is one of them is all I can say.

I just want to thank Senator DeWine for his leadership on this committee.

We wrote the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. We brought together almost everybody in Congress on that bill.

I was one of the principal sponsors, as was Senator Kennedy, of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

I think that Walter Dellinger, who as we all know served as Solicitor General during the Clinton administration, said it best.

I get a little tired of this beating up on the Federalist Society as though there is some sort of a secret society.

I think there comes a time when we have got to put partisan politics aside.

Leading liberal academics and Government officials regularly participate in the organization's events.

I am going to clear this room--

I intend to do that when there is a Democrat President as well.

I agree that it is extraordinary to have three Circuit Court nominees. It has been done before.

I am just trying to do my job--as a chairman. I am trying to fill these courts, and I have not seen anything wrong here today.

It is my hope that Congress will enact legislation that will ban the birth of cloned babies, but will allow stem cell research through nuclear transplantation to go forward.