Arlen Specter: “in the absence of any other Republican Senator who seeks time to speak on the pending issue, I yield to myself 5 minutes…”

The Supreme Court decides all of the important cutting issues of the day.

Because it is so important for the public to know how its Government functions, and because the Supreme Court affects the lives of Americans in such great detail.

I have sought recognition to introduce today a bill that strengthens the Armed Career Criminal Act in response to a series of Supreme Court rulings, which wrongly have restricted when and how the Act is applied, and have caused unnecessary…

I had spoken about this when we reconvened several weeks ago, that it is my hope that Congress, the Senate specifically, will take up legislation which I have introduced which would authorize the use of Federal funding for embryonic stem…