Arlen Specter: “I am advised by staff, since I posed the question, in a note to the effect that Senator Durbin's staff did come to look…”

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.

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.'

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