We will do everything we can to make sure that New York has final say on routing decisions, which is what the court intended.

Good old fashioned American competition did the job.

I said, free market, let disclosure work.

The type of trip-wire pricing is predatory. It has to end.

Disclosure is no longer enough.

One was to do a nationwide search to see where to locate its credit processing office, and they found that New Hampshire was the place where, on average, it took the longest amount of time for a letter to be mailed from any point in the…

I think that we all do agree that, generally, a system that was created in the 19th century was created in a way that should be fair.

I want to express appreciation to Senator Feinstein for the fabulous job she did and hard work.

Opening Statement of: Hon. Charles E. Schumer, Chairman, a U.S. Senator from the State of New York.

Lindsey Graham and I put in a proposal for a biometric social security card to deal with the immigration problem a couple of years ago.

One issue we need to be aware of is that the first federal primaries in 2010 are about a year from now.

John Cornyn... has been a strong and committed advocate for military voters.

I offer the amendment in the hope that it can be adopted.

The Rules Committee will come to order and I want to wish everyone good morning to our first Rules Committee meeting of the 111th Congress.

Ben Nelson, who is Chairman of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel and Readiness, has helped craft this legislation into shape.

All those numbers are consistent. They represent different categories.

We have received input from a number of groups and senators and worked to incorporate their comments and concerns, so I think this is a strong bipartisan bill.

Senator Cornyn has been a champion on this issue and has some amendments that we have all worked out.

I pledge myself to work with the minority, try to come up with a bipartisan bill.

How many total people are there in South Dakota?

The question is: does that strike you as odd?

This illustrates the point I think that both Mr. Ansolabehere and Mr. Gans were making.

I want to thank him for his dedication to helping men and women who serve overseas in our Armed Forces exercise their franchise.

I expect we are going to be pretty active in that area this year in terms of elections, in terms of voting and things like that.

Thank you, Senator Chambliss.