"I do think that we have a constitutional problem when a minority in the Senate takes it upon itself to rule against the will of the majority."
"the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote in an authoritative 1905 report that the Framers meant the word recess 'Should mean something real, not something imaginary. Something actual. Not something fictit..."
"we as a Nation must do a better job of ensuring the security of the cargo arriving on our shores every day."
"we must not wait to impose security measures until containers reach the United States."
"If there is a nuclear bomb inside a container and it is detected by radiation portal monitors in Newark or Miami or Los Angeles, it may very well be too late."
"But there is nothing new and nothing alarming about justices educating themselves about the laws and practices of other nations."
"Efforts to attack that independence, as exhibited in H.R. 973, the bill introduced by our colleague from Florida, Ms. Adams, that would ban courts from 'deciding any issue on the authority of foreign ..."
"Of course, in addition to instances where a judge may look to foreign law as non-binding but informative, courts sometimes must consider and be bound by foreign law in reaching a decision."
"We've been here before. In 2004, my Republican colleagues held a hearing on this issue to rail against the Supreme Court's decisions in Lawrence v. Texas and Atkins v. Virginia."
"Our Constitution will remain our Constitution. We will not give authority to what is being done in foreign countries."
"Not since that decision has government ever arrogated to itself the power to decide whether a woman's reason for a pre-viability abortion is satisfactory."
"The measure before us does absolutely nothing to provide women with the tools they need to get adequate prenatal care."