Sam Brownback: “If you need more statutory authority--and you've said you'll ask us for that. You should use it like a club.”

I wanted to engage my colleague from North Dakota because there is a strong base of bipartisan support to do this, and I also believe there is a strong majority community across America that supports this. Don't get it out there so wild…

we have to get more focus on this by a broader cross-section, or we will not be effective in this.

My major concern . . . is the jobs in Kansas. Wichita is the air capital of the world, and we've got more major air companies there than anyplace in the world: Boeing, Airbus and all the [general aviation],

I rise to discuss the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court. Just over a year ago, the Senate considered the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and today we continue the debate on…