Edward M. Kennedy: “I think it is a reasonable way to proceed in terms of hearing from the presenters here.”

We believe that immigrants, like women and African Americans before them, have rights in this country, and the time is ripe for a new civil rights moment.

In Robert Bork's America, there is no room at the end for blacks, have no place in the Constitution for women. And in our America, there should be no seat on the Supreme Court for Robert Bork.

Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us, what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world.

I have a letter--I'm sure you've seen it, Chairman Harkin; I know you've seen it, Senator Cochran--from Senator Kennedy, where he requests $35 million for fiscal year 2010 to fund this.