I want to respond directly to the comments made by the Senator from Connecticut. I too sit on the Rules Committee and I take a responsibility here, being a steward, as the Senator from Connecticut said, a temporary steward of this place…

today I rise to speak to an amendment to the VA-HUD, and Independent Agencies appropriations bill which increases the bill's funding for AmeriCorps up to the funding level requested by President Bush in this year's budget. The bill…

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…

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…

This is not a matter of debate. This is not a matter of due consideration. This is a matter of not allowing a qualified judge, a justice of the supreme court of the largest State in this country, who was elected by 76 percent of the people…

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?

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…

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

So as the Senator from Missouri said further, the little fish they let go through the nets but they catch the big fish, the folks who rule on the law, who have the ability to influence the character of the law in this country, the…

I say to the Senator that in normal cases I would say that may be the case. But it is clear we are going to have a cloture vote on Friday on this nominee. It is abundantly apparent to everyone who has been listening to these proceedings…

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…

Assume that, and I am sure some in this country would like to see this happen, in the next election President Bush is overwhelmingly defeated at the polls, after his defeat at the polls in November, President Bush nominates a judge to a…

You would think from the debate here that this right to privacy, that has now been established as this incredibly well thought out and documented thing, is wholly supported within this document. I have folks on my side of the aisle--I…

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…

before I resume debate on the judicial nominations, all this talk about not having done work on the economy ignores the fact this Senate early this year passed a jobs and growth package that is working--7.2 percent growth in the last…

I take a step back here and go through what we are doing. What is going on? What is going on in the Senate that has brought about this debate which has been so important? Can we agree on what is going on? I think we can. Let me use the…

I might agree with him looking forward because we will have set a precedent tonight. We will have set a precedent in this session of Congress that will go to haunt both sides forever. If we maintain it, it will. I guarantee it. What we are…

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 is a very historic time for our country. Until this Congress there had never been a filibuster of a circuit court nominee in the history of this country. Thus far we have had four filibusters of highly qualified judicial nominees this…

I plead with the Members on the other side of the aisle to stop this. I have folks on our side of the aisle saying: Don't plead with them. Don't plead with them. Let them do it. Because we will have our opportunity someday, and we will…

I raise again the issue of H.R. 7. H.R. 7 is the charitable giving act, the CARE Act, that passed both the House and the Senate. I want to state again for the Record this is a bipartisan bill. This is a bill that was worked out in the…

I have another argument that causes pause for me and that is that, while, yes, everybody is talking about all the commerce that occurs on the Internet, there is a lot more depravity that occurs on the Internet than commerce. The top Web…

I object. Mr. President, I understand the Senator from Nevada has suggested we simply amend the bill we passed earlier this year and send it back to the House. I respectfully suggest to the Senator from Nevada, through the Presiding…

I wish to clarify a point the Senator from Vermont made about the White House. I think if the Senator from Vermont will go back and look at the White House's proposal, and how much money they said they would spend when they put the…