Jim Sensenbrenner: “This time we have to do it right, because there will be a further Paroline-type case that makes it all the way up to the…”

I think that this markup has been a lot better than it could have been, and I think the chairman has been probably very evenhanded on that.

It is amazing to me that, again, the things that will come out of this markup is not the simple fact that they are going to mark up this and they will send it to the floor.

One of the few things that deans do around here, aside from using our institutional memory, is to ask unanimous consent that people who are elected in special elections from their State be permitted to take the oath of office. Today it is…

what got me interested in this entire issue probably about 4 years ago, was a constituent named Lauri Badura. Her son died of an overdose.