Arlen Specter: “Thank you, Senator Harkin, for insisting on not interceding.”

Well, you are the Senate. You decide how to proceed.

I cannot applaud Rutland enough, because we had a similar hearing a few years ago when Senator Arlen Specter and I were here, and that shaped a number of federal programs for the better because of what we heard from you.

Congressional legislation 'doesn't amount to anything if the president can say, 'My constitutional authority supersedes the statute.'

Senator Specter cited just one. It was his vote against confirming Jeff Sessions as a Federal judge.