Rick Santorum

Does the Senator from Colorado wish to comment on Members who oppose this constitutional amendment yet support the language of it, which I find to be somewhat remarkable, but they support the definition of traditional marriage and have…

Yet we have heard on the floor today, have we not, that those of us who support a definition with which they agree, that Members who have criticized us for offering this, are intolerant, hateful, and gay bashers for proposing language…

The last point my colleague made is one that is very important. A lot of people in the Senate, and even some across the country, have suggested that the Defense of Marriage Act will stand. There is a lot of legal opinion. The Senator from…

You can say I'm a hater. But I would argue I'm a lover. I'm a lover of traditional families and children who deserve the right to have a mother and a father.

Senator Bingaman is correct. For over 50 years, Department of Defense investment in university research has been a dominant element of the Nation's research and development infrastructure and an essential component of the United States…

I add my congratulations to Judge Van Antwerpen. He has been an excellent public servant and distinguished jurist and will make an excellent contribution to the Third Circuit.

This has been a rough couple of months for the president particularly in the issues of Iraq.

I want to make the point in the last 10 years, the child poverty rate has declined almost 30 percent. During that time there was one increase in the minimum wage, but there was a dramatic change in welfare. I ask the Senator, does he have…

I look forward to this welfare reform debate. I hope we can have a good and enlightened debate on an issue that is vitally important for millions of Americans and that we keep to the subject of welfare, try to pass this bill, get it to…

What I sent to the desk was a budget as proposed by Senator Kerry. This is a combination of the documentation from the L.A. Times, Washington Post, and other sources, of the proposals he has made with respect to this year's budget. For the…

I did not talk about the deficit starting in the Clinton administration. I am talking about when the recession started.

Maybe what we are finding out here is the minority doesn't want someone who is going to follow the law. I think what they really want is someone who is going to make the law, make the law politically, exactly maybe as the Senator from…

This gets to the heart of this 168-to-4 number. The vast majority of the 168 are at the district court level, trial court level. What the Senator from Kansas is saying--and I want to make it clear-- the district court judges, by and large…

The final point is, Justice Pryor, 1980, nominated by Jimmy Carter after the November election in 1980. The President's party lost the election, the Democrats lost the Senate, he was nominated after the election and was brought to the…

The Senator from Kansas points out that Judge Pickering, who is a sitting Federal court judge right now, was affirmed in 99.5 percent of his cases. What I have heard from the other side is that we do not want these judges out of the…

My understanding is the nominee you are referring to was nominated in August, 2 months before the election.

I think the analogy of the Senator from Minnesota--the Senator from Minnesota says if we are forcing what the Constitution requires 98 percent of the time, or much worse, 75 percent of the time, I think the American public would have a…

Most decisions that are appealed from the trial court go to the appellate court, or the circuit court, but very few go up to the Supreme Court. Is it not true the appellate court makes the final decision in a lot of these cases?

We saw in just the last few quarters the business community--which has really been lagging, and which is an indicator in all of the economy--as a result of the accelerated depreciation expensing provision in the tax package that we passed…

Absolutely. The fact is that incentives for businesses to invest in capital and equipment and purchasing capital equipment for manufacturers here in this country means they are improving their productivity. They are being more competitive…

They want to roll back the reductions that the President put in place. They do not like the dividend proposal. The stock market has added $2 trillion in value. What does that mean to the millions of Americans who now participate in the…

They have blocked every form of reasonable and balanced litigation reform that balances the interests of those who rightfully have a plea before a court for compensation and the right of society not to have outrageous awards, which make us…

The No. 1 crisis in my State with regard to health care is medical lawsuit abuses.

If you look at the last 3 months, almost 300,000 new jobs, net new jobs were created in this economy.

I have seen some of them. In fact, they were revised a couple of months prior to the most recent report--I believe it was August and September--the net new jobs created on the original projection was 16,000. They have revised them up to…