Arlen Specter

That is a big, big issue, and that is one which is being addressed on a bipartisan basis.

I first welcome my distinguished colleague, Senator Ted Kaufman, who has graciously come up from his home in Delaware this morning to join us on this panel.

We have been derelict, flatly derelict, in not acting up until now.

The issue as to what has happened in Arizona has caused a great deal of concern in many quarters.

My State has a considerable Latino population, and I hear a lot of concern and a lot of anger.

But the question looms, and there is still a lot of undercurrent of dissatisfaction with NAFTA from the start.

There is no doubt that NAFTA has benefited Mexico. Has NAFTA benefited the United States?

The issue of mine safety is a gigantic one. We tend to downplay it until there is a tragedy, and then we're all up in arms about it.

I have been a consistent proponent of aggressive preparedness efforts at the Federal, State and local levels to reduce the threat of an influenza pandemic.

I think there really has to be some break point where we stop the retaliation.

The business about the filibusters is being carried to just ridiculous extremes.

It is my hope that we will find one day soon an opportunity to break the gridlock which has engulfed the Senate for some time now on the judicial issues.

I filed a bill to compel the Supreme Court to take the warrantless wiretap case.

The Court, by deciding not to decide, is very deferential to Executive power.

The work that you're doing has tremendous impact, generally, but especially on the big cities, on the Job Corps, so many unemployed minorities with so many difficulties.

That's a pretty ominous big brother scenario.

In a representative democracy we have to make the judgments, to consider our constituents, but ultimately to make the judgments ourselves, we don't run by polling or public opinion polls.

Are there sufficient laws now to deal with the issue of pornography and videotaping?

We are onerous and ominous.

What is realistic to have some limitation, an enforceable limitation on cell phones?

Privacy is one of our most prized values in our society protected by the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

The conflict foments anti-American sentiment, due to a perception of U.S. favoritism toward Israel.

Thank you for taking on this important job.

The stimulus funds have brought a resurgence of scientists to labs to find cures to the greatest maladies of our times.

It is precisely the kind of divisive and unnecessarily sweeping decision that Chief Justice Roberts pledged to avoid.