So may your nomination continue to be uneventful, and best wishes as you go forward.

They are obliged to respect precedent.

As I said before, judges must respect the role of Congress as the duly elected representatives of the American people.

They are obligated to decide cases based on the law and the facts.

Judges are obliged to recognize the role of Congress as the elected representatives of the American people.

You must decide cases based on the law and the facts.

It is a powerful testament to the quality of the different nominees.

You must respect the precedent that provides the framework for your decision.

I was actually an attorney general while your attorney general, Drew Edmondson, was the head of the National Association of Attorneys General, and he thinks very highly of you.

You know, that's not bad.

They are obliged to limit themselves to the issues properly presented to the court.

The person in the house was actually the best person to buy the house, and yet the bank insisted on throwing them out.

Rhode Island has been hit very hard by foreclosures, and the frustration is that in many cases those foreclosures should not have happened.

In some cases, the foreclosure, frankly, should not have happened just as a matter of decency.

I encourage the committee to approve this important and bipartisan bill.

Marie Colvin died last week, Wednesday, in Syria. As I speak, her body is still in Homs because the Assad regime refuses to honor the centuries-old tradition of human decency that even in war you are allowed to recover your dead. An…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Death of Marie Colvin in Syria

On behalf of a group of old friends who are stricken by her loss, I offer this in affection, in appreciation, and in memorandum. Marie's mother, Rosemarie Colvin, said of Marie: Her legacy is: be passionate and be involved in what you…

I rise today to speak in support of the Transportation reauthorization bill that is currently before the Senate. It is called the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, so we call it by its acronym, MAP 21. It is a critical…

It doesn't make sense. I thank her for getting us to this point. I know how much frustration she must feel, having worked so hard and in such a bipartisan way to get us to this point and to now have a process that would get this bill…

It is unfortunate, when there are real stakes for real families on the table and real time slipping by, that we don't get this done. We get jacked up enough around here, but as hard as the chairman has worked to bring this to the floor and…

I think it is a terrible mistake to go down that road, but I think it is a double mistake: it is wrong to go down that road in the first instance, but it is also wrong while we need jobs so urgently, while our highways crumble and our…

I thank my chairman, and yes, it is kind of astonishing, the breadth and the scope of this amendment. As if CEOs don't have enough power over their workforce, as if they haven't done enough to send jobs from American factories offshore to…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to a period of morning business until 3 p.m., with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

And the results are really profound. I will close with this point in this discussion. For as long essentially as mankind has been on this Earth, for 800,000 years--to put 800,000 years in scale, we have probably been engaged in agriculture…