Arlen Specter: “I am glad to see Senator Graham's addition to the bill on a counterterrorism czar.”

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

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.

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

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.