to stand by that which is decided. |
Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward. |
Two women, I think, are a minimum. |
Unfortunately, the debate over that advertisement has become a distraction from the serious discussion we hoped to have with the American public, |
very thorough and piercing confirmation process with very, very detailed questions on what Judge Roberts has said in the past. |
Voting in favor would put senators in a better position to oppose later or a vote in opposition would put the president on notice that he better put somebody up who was acceptable to a broad spectrum of senators. |
Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns. |
Wait a minute, Senator Biden. He's not finished his answer. |
Wait a minute, wait a minute. Sen. Kennedy just propounded a very, very long question. Now let him (Roberts) answer the question. |
Wait a minute. They may be misleading, but they are his answers, ... You may finish, Judge Roberts. |
was the complexity of a Supreme Court nomination hearing because of there are a lot of complicated issues. |
Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress? |
We all have a responsibility to ask probing questions to determine qualification beyond academic and professional standing. |
We all have our points of view, and they were expressed pretty forcefully in quite a number of the rounds of questions, |
We are not going to budge, it is our prerogative on the power of the purse and we're not going to yield on that point. So there is a stalemate, ... We proposed to send the a bill which has more on education funding, more on health funding, but that one point, we think we're right and we're going to urge him to sign the bill. |