Arlen Specter: “It is not easy to run all these hearings without a scorecard, and we do not work on a text.”

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

The priority was to protect the family at all costs.

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.

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