Arlen Specter: “I congratulate Chairman Leahy and former Chairman Hatch on their leadership on this very important subject.”

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.

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

I believe that if the Court were televised, there would be an understanding and an accountability.

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