Bill Lee: “Are these cuts really necessary? I mean, how are we going to justify cuts when, in fact, the need is greater?”

I, nonetheless, take umbrage--great umbrage in fact--to a couple of characterizations to which I must now respond. First, as to what she characterizes as the ``long bureaucratic process,'' this process is itself quite short, especially in…

I think it’s really important that the courts will weigh in on this. The legislature has followed the authority and the process that they believe fairly and appropriately divides districts, as they have done for generations as has happened…

It is important to reflect on the importance of this position and on the importance of the Department that he has been asked by the President of the United States to lead. This is a Department that, 25 years ago, didn't exist. It was…

It surprises me in the sense that it seems phenomenally unwise. It would have surprised me earlier in my lifetime. It would have surprised me even earlier in my time here in the U.S. Senate; yet something has happened in recent years that…