Arlen Specter: “I would urge you to give consideration to a policy in the Department of Justice.”

The reason we serve is to ensure that our children and our children's children inherit the same great country that we received from those who went before us.

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

We are trying to make sure that we have maximum impact in the places that could use the money the most.

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