Edward M. Kennedy

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I thank our witnesses.

Well, now, in the Russell case, as I understand, you argued that the workmen's compensation benefits should terminate without a hearing.

They reached a different conclusion.

The concern is about in light of the persistent dissents and your consistent siding with the large corporations against the individuals.

And you interpret that statute entirely differently.

I am troubled like other members of the Committee of having three nominees who are controversial.

The laws play an important role in restoring the confidence of the American people for preventing this abuse in the future.

Much of the last 2 years have been spent recovering from corporate malfeasance that has hurt our economy

I am not an expert on the Ohio law, but it seems that the citation is fairly clear.

you have taken the Ohio Constitution's provisions guaranteeing a thorough and efficient public education and voted to basically interpret it out of existence.

The only point, and this is my last one, is just how can we be sure that you are not going to continue this agenda should you get on the court?

I think it is a reasonable way to proceed in terms of hearing from the presenters here.

I want to help patients--that is why we are in medicine, to help patients--and I do not get enough to pay the expense in my office.

I am concerned, but not surprised, that this controversy has arisen again.

We must always be concerned about those, Senator Clinton, prevention and cure.

I first of all want to thank you for having the hearings, and I am very hopeful that we can move this process forward very expeditiously.

It is a very important position. I congratulate Attorney General Ashcroft for this selection.

We should act again--this time in earnest--to protect our children and our schools from gun violence.

We are strongly committed on this side of the aisle to building on tried and tested programs that are indicating enhanced achievement for the children of this country.

We believe, with the scarce resources available, we ought to invest in a guaranteed program with guaranteed results of having the smaller class sizes.

But the fact is we only have the record of those individuals who are involved in these hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cases. We do not have the records of the ones who were not.

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