Trent Lott: “I just want to know how it's going to be better next week and how are we going to be ready for the next natural disaster…”

Senator Lautenberg is here, chairman of the subcommittee. He is working with Senator Murray on a couple amendments. We have a couple amendments by Senator DeMint that we have cleared. We are hoping we will have a chance to visit with…

I wish to make some opening comments about what happened here and make a plea to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, but particularly my own side of the aisle, that we not object to going to consideration of Amtrak legislation. I…

We are going to start doing things a little differently. We are going to go back and do some of the things that worked.

We do not filibuster judges. And if we were to do that, we would change the culture of this place.