I rise to speak of my concerns over Ms. Elena Kagan's refusal as Solicitor General of the United States to defend Federal laws--laws with which she clearly did not agree and with which her President, President Obama, did not agree. Her…

I certainly do not believe it is. As the Senator has noted repeatedly--and we serve on the Armed Services Committee together--this was not a military policy; this was a law passed by this Congress and signed by President Clinton, with whom…

There is absolutely no doubt about it. She openly sent an e-mail to all students and said she considered this policy that Congress adopted a moral injustice of the first order. On one occasion a military recruiter was apparently working in…

I wonder how the Senator thinks they felt when they faced this kind of discrimination. ... to treat people who were designated by the President of the United States to be recruiters, to motivate other young men and women to join what I…

Given our tiny membership, meager budget, and lack of any office space, we possess neither the time nor the resources to routinely schedule campus rooms or advertise extensively for outside organizations, as is the norm for most recruiting…

Is it a bit contradictory that you would want to treat the military as 'separate but equal,' condemning them--the Air Force Judge Advocate General military person said they were condemned to wandering the halls of Harvard Law School in…

Absolutely. Harvard had agreed to follow this law. Her predecessor as dean, Dean Clark, had agreed to do so. She seized upon an opportunity, without legal authority, to cease to comply with that law, denied the military full access to the…

I notice today that a single sitting Federal judge in California has just wiped out proposition 8 that was passed by a majority of the people in California. I guess there were millions voting on that, which simply said a marriage should be…

No. In fact, it took the president of Harvard, Larry Summers--now President Obama's chief financial economic adviser; he was then president of Harvard--he had to reverse her decision when he was faced with the loss of Federal funds. The…

Well, you know, I think it might. If they have good judgment and are good people, I am not so worried where they come from. But when you have five people on the Supreme Court--and we will have that if she is confirmed--all from one of the…

Absolutely. I think that is the essence of what happened. She eventually acknowledged that at no time was the Solomon Amendment not in force at Harvard when she was there. I know Senator McCain remembers that we passed four versions of the…

I appreciate Chairman Leahy. He is a strong and effective leader of our committee. We agree a lot of times. I try to work with him, and sometimes we disagree. One thing we will soon be doing that I look forward to very much is going to the…