And he is going to have to stay that way.

The opposition to providing bilingual ballots to bilingual American citizens, who are vested with the right to vote, is a particularly troubling part of this debate.

It is critical that President Bush make good on his commitment to support the Senate's work.

I am sorry to find that the election-year politics seem to have diminished the work the Senate has done to find a comprehensive solution to the Nation's immigration problem.

Isolating ourselves and turning this country into a police state is not the way our Nation will remain the beacon of freedom and prosperity it has always been.

I believe there is real merit to President Bush's argument that if we increase the opportunity to come to the United States legally, we will reduce the demand for illegal entry.

Regrettably, the Senate leadership is returning again and again to using constitutional amendments as election-year rallying cries to excite the passion of voters. That's wrong.

Now, are you telling me that tens of millions of Americans are involved with al Qaeda? If that's the case, we've really failed in any kind of a war on terror.

It's almost like a bomb went off and that's nearly five months after the storm.

Senate Democrats are pushing to delay a vote on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, whose confirmation hearings wrapped up today.

I wonder whether he was one Samuel Alito in the 1980s, a different one today, whether he's running away from his record.

I can't find anyone who thinks the so-called data-mining aspect of the secret surveillance program is legal.

We are a democracy. Let's have checks and balances, not secret orders and secret courts.

The new documents showed Alito to be an eager and early partisan in the ranks of ideological activists in his party's extreme right wing.

No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

Well, I am glad to hear you say whatever we designate in the legislation.

Would you answer for the record then whether they will be kept at the 2005 level, which is basically what the congressional directive was?

So they would be kept running at the 2005 level?

I had mentioned the Budget Committee's language which says that we will get $2.4 billion in revenues in 2007 from lease sales on the Arctic Refuge.

I just wonder how these figures come. I really would like a very clear answer.

Does that mean you will or will not ignore the congressional direction in the 2005 appropriations to increase the base fishery budget in 2006?

Then we have the potential effects of cuts to the fishery budget at the Lake Champlain management office.

Governor Murkowski said Alaska will sue the Federal Government if they do not get 90 percent.

We went to war in Iraq for a lot of reasons that turned out not to be valid.

Now, the White House has put tens of billions of dollars for continuing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan off budget.