I would be more than happy to do so.

A law is a blunt and cumbersome instrument to work against it, but I hope that perhaps I can work with you in documenting the discrimination if it exists, then doing something to counter it.

I refer to it as PTS rather than PTSD because I think that calling it a disorder gives it a kind of stigma that is completely unjustified.

Thank you for your service to our Nation over many years and for providing information to me at our last meeting.

Judge Johnson's history... was really a hero.

You are really going to serve as the protectors and guardians of our Nation's legal conscience.

Thanks, Senator Isakson. Thank you both for your insights and wisdom about these nominees.

A constitutional right to privacy obviously cannot include the right to engage in private conduct which was condemned as criminal at the very time that the Constitution was ratified.

I think the difficulty, most of the difficulty, will be involved with the internal procedures and practices of the court.

I am very pleased to call this hearing to order.

Were you unaware about the violence that was linked to performing abortions at that time?

You may recall in February 2004, in your capacity then as a State legislator, you spoke on the floor of the Georgia House of Representatives in favor of a resolution calling for a proposed constitutional amendment that would have banned…

If I may respond to the Senator, my colleague and friend from Rhode Island, with a question that summarizes one of the key reasons we are here today. I see we have been joined by the senior Senator from Rhode Island who is senior to me on…

That is why we are here tonight, and that is why we will stay the course. I yield the floor. The Senator from New Mexico.

Why are we here tonight. We are here because if we fail to act, our planet will be destroyed. As exaggerated as that claim sounds, it is strikingly, irrefutably true. We are here because our future is at stake, and not only ours but our…

The public is frustrated and unhappy with the pace of responses and the amount of information provided.

the better and quicker that we try to provide information, the better democracy works.

I am honored to follow my colleague and very good friend, the Senator from Connecticut, and to join him, the Presiding Officer, the Senator from Rhode Island; the Senator from Hawaii, Senator Schatz; and Senator Boxer, the Senator from…

What is your timeline for actually implementing a standardized common regulation?

I appreciate your having this hearing, which I think is profoundly important, and I recognize your leadership in the area of open government and freedom of information.

I very much applaud and welcome those kinds of initiatives.

And why does that not exist now, as you put it, standardized and common FOIA regulations----

we should welcome the public's interest in what the Government does.

I think we're going to want all of you back and we're going to want you back soon.

We need to make sure that the regulatory agencies are not victims of regulatory capture as happened, for example, in the financial industry in 2008.