If the Senator will yield, this is a troubling thing. Justice Scalia has been a fierce critic of this, pointing out: What country do you pick? Do judges get to pick their own? It seems to me, from what the Senator said, it is clear that…

I rise today to discuss an important matter involving the future of the Tennessee Valley Authority. As you may know, TVA is led by a Board of Directors that consists of nine individuals appointed by the President and confirmed by the…

we wish to enter into a discussion this afternoon about a very critical issue in this confirmation process, and that is the second amendment and the right to keep and bear arms as provided for in our Constitution; the threat that now…

in the midst of President Johnson's ``Great Society,'' Ronald Reagan explained that our Nation had arrived at a crossroads, at a time for choosing. The choice, Reagan explained, was ``whether we believe in our capacity for self-government…

I would like to express my appreciation to my staff who worked tirelessly during these past few months on this nomination. They spent many long hours combing through and distilling information in hundreds of thousands of documents provided…

I appreciate Senator Schumer's legislation, and I also would support it. It is clearly a step in the right direction, and it is one of the things we need to do. I guess as we leave this Congress to go home and get ready to campaign, many…

The question becomes: Does it impact a fundamental right? At some point it does. We decided you cannot put a poll tax on people to say you have to pay money for your right to vote. People do not have to pay for the right to speak out about…

Well, did our Founding Fathers actually know this? What was their intent with regard to preserving the right to keep and bear arms when this language went into the Constitution?

Well, most nominees have not had a record on it, but it is interesting, and perhaps noteworthy, that President Obama, who himself has not been a strong supporter of the second amendment rights, and many of his supporters and Cabinet…

The McDonald case was a hugely important case. It dealt for the first time in recent memory with the question of whether the second amendment, which had been held in Heller to apply to the Federal Government, whether it passed through the…

I will say that one of the unjustifiable actions of the judicial activist philosophy that is too much afoot in America today is their willingness to completely be oblivious to plain constitutional rights, things that are flatly stated, and…

I agree. I think we must study what our Constitution says, what the people who wrote it meant, and what rights the people retained for themselves when they created it and gave certain limited rights to the Federal Government. I do believe…