Arlen Specter: “Mr. President, the Defense Contract Audit Agency [DCAA] is threatening the viability of ESOP defense contractors by…”

I have sought recognition to introduce today a bill that strengthens the Armed Career Criminal Act in response to a series of Supreme Court rulings, which wrongly have restricted when and how the Act is applied, and have caused unnecessary…

One other point briefly--I see a colleague awaiting an opportunity to speak--and that is my hope we will address, before the end of the year, the issue of televising the proceedings of the Supreme Court of the United States. This is an…

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.'