Mr. President, 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…

Mr. President, 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…

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…

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…

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…

Mr. President, I thank Senator Brown for his important comments, and I join him in expressing my sympathy for their loss and my appreciation of the courage and dedication of our men and women in uniform. I rise to speak of my concerns over…

She did use that word. Mr. McCAIN. 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…

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…

Perhaps so. With regard to those young officers who were on the Harvard campus, my understanding of the military--and the Senator's experience is far greater than mine--is that many of those officers may well have just returned from Iraq…