Arlen Specter: “I regret that I am going to have to excuse myself early to join the Environment and Public Works Committee, where we are…”

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

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

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

The priority was to protect the family at all costs.