Arlen Specter: “I'm looking forward to the day when either Senator Harkin or I will be chairman of appropriations. I have a preference.”

The reason we serve is to ensure 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.

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

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.