Racial disparities and racial discrimination in our criminal justice system is a stain on American democracy.

As bad as this is, as much as it has aggravated the situation--and I plead guilty as one of those who voted for it.

I think that is frankly unconstitutional.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I do not recall any complaints from either the Republican side of the aisle of their President, President Bush's decision through his Department of Justice, to try that case in an Article III court.

can you tell me what the distinction might be, why Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be tried in a military commission?

So we have a very close parallel where the Bush administration decided on the 20th hijacker for 9/11 to prosecute him in the Article III court, in a venue very close to the scene of the horrific tragedy.

We have never had an escape from a supermax facility in the United States.

So the statement that has been made about a thousand jihadist followers streaming across the highways of Illinois is inconsistent with the law.

I want to applaud Senator Grassley who has worked so hard in bipartisan efforts on whistleblowers over the years.

It is time for Congress to recognize that the 2005 bankruptcy reform bill is causing unnecessary and unfair hardship to people who no one thinks are abusing the system.

I opposed the bankruptcy reform bill that became law in 2005 for many reasons, but the overriding reason was that I believed it was a blunt instrument designed and pushed by powerful interests in the banking industry that would harm the…

Senator Whitehouse's bill contains some common sense and quite moderate measures to try to reduce the burden for people whose financial problems are caused by medical problems.

It seems to me, if I recall correctly--it has been many years since I did this for a living, but we had a 2-year statute of limitations in Illinois unless there was concealment of extraordinary circumstances.

And isn't that at the basis of our antitrust law?

This industry has been exempt from that basic requirement.

Thank you very much, Ms. Varney.

If I understand Chairman Leahy, there is no prohibition against sharing historical data.

It puts it in perspective for a lot of us, incidentally, who support a public option and think that they need real competition to keep them honest on this.

I would say that there has never been a better time for us to address this, and the health insurance industry has thrown down the gauntlet Monday night and said, 'We are going to increase premiums no matter what you do, and we are going to…

I do not quarrel with that being the reason they were proposed, but I will ask you...

Thanks, Mr. Powell. Mr. Hunter, I am sorry. We ran out of time.

The American people expect more of the conscience of the Nation from the U.S. Senate.

We should not be delayed then for months because of anonymous holds.

How many other individuals have been charged under this law?