Mike Johanns: “It is like everybody got instructions, push your authorities to the limit and beyond, and see if they can stop us.”

I ask for the yeas and nays. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Joseph S. Hezir, of Virginia, to…

I just hope we are not over-engineering something here.

Could you do that and make it crystal clear to the public that you confirm that the role of conservator... is to be the bridge builder?

Our job is to try to figure out how we deal with that puzzle, that very difficult issue of how to provide services to people who need it.