05/07/2009
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"The Department of Justice has final settlement authority in any case against the United States."
"We made real reform in IDEA. I led that effort. We ended up having the vote of Hillary Clinton and Dick Durbin."
"The Solicitor General... has a duty, the Department of Justice does, to defend the laws passed by this body, by Congress."
"Well, it can fail to enforce it by setting prosecutorial policies with regard to declining to prosecute whole chunks of cases and, in effect, eliminate a statute."