independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.

What is interesting, though, is that it threw out 96 years of precedent, and it did so 5-4.

Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to our departed Senate Dean, Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia. Senator Byrd served in this Chamber longer than any Senator in history, 50\1/2\ years. Combined with 6 prior years in the House of…

Your nomination to the Supreme Court has to be among the least surprising ever made.

Heller changed the law, creating for the first time in 220 years a private right to bear arms.

Should there be any desire or motivation on the part of that group of five to reach their scope a little bit more broadly?

So it concerns me that it is there, and I would hope that if you get to the Court you are more restrained in terms of making findings of fact at the Supreme Court level.

I join my colleagues in condolence on this day of sorrow for the Senate and the Supreme Court alike.

And in that particular case, the institution of the jury lost, and the predictability for corporations won.

You are the Solicitor General of the United States, the lawyer for the United States before the Supreme Court.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the conference report to H.R. 4173, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which closes frequently exploited loopholes in our regulation system, puts an end to rewarding…

I think the window onto Elena Kagan that America is getting in these hearings is one of a very bright, very good-humored, very well-intentioned, and very able future Supreme Court justice.

But for those of us who have been witness here to lengthy discussions about the importance of precedent and the danger of judicial activism...

I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana. (The remarks of Ms. Landrieu are printed in today's Record under ``Morning Business.'')

Mr. President, I rise to pay tribute to an extraordinary Senator--Robert Byrd of West Virginia. Chairman Byrd was the longest serving Senator in the history of this country. He served with extraordinary distinction not only on behalf of…

And since it would be inappropriate, the worst possible thing, is it likely that such a judge would disclose that agenda or motivation, would make it a part of a written opinion, would admit it?

So if a judge or judges had a particular agenda or motivation, say to serve the interests and reflect the values of a particular political party, that would be inappropriate?

The ARRA money will run out.