I also worked closely with Senator Biden--it was the Biden-Hatch Bill--on another law that the Supreme Court has found to be beyond Federal power.

I first would like to acknowledge and thank Senator Leahy for his service as Chairman of this Committee over the past 16 months.

Thank you, Senator Feingold. We are going to give you until 1:30...

Sometimes, that is for sure, and today is one of them is all I can say.

I just want to thank Senator DeWine for his leadership on this committee.

We wrote the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. We brought together almost everybody in Congress on that bill.

I was one of the principal sponsors, as was Senator Kennedy, of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

I think that Walter Dellinger, who as we all know served as Solicitor General during the Clinton administration, said it best.

I get a little tired of this beating up on the Federalist Society as though there is some sort of a secret society.

I think there comes a time when we have got to put partisan politics aside.

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