He will enforce the laws, no matter what his personal opinion may be. |
He's an able fellow, but we just went through a tough confirmation hearing, and my sense is that the national interest would be best served if he stayed in that job right now, |
He's leaning toward the beginning of January. |
Hearings for a Supreme Court nominee should not have a political tilt for either Republicans or Democrats, ... They should, in substantive fact and in perception, be for all Americans. |
Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding. |
Here you have a reporter in jail for 85 days and millions of Americans wonder why? I'm one of those. |
His answers are misleading, with all due respect. |
His approach of modesty, of stability, and away from judicial activism, I think, is a model. Whether it is carried out, remains to be seen. |
I am committed to conducting a full, fair and dignified hearing. |
I am concerned about the Supreme Court's judicial activism which has usurped congressional authority, |
I am very anxious to get this hearing into the hearing room, where we have a stenographer and we have a witness and we have orderly procedures, ... and take the proceedings away from the back rooms and away from the conference calls and away from the corridors and do it like the Constitution says it ought be done. |
I asked him this question because I have reason to believe Mr. Conrad has requested an independent counsel, |
I believe he went somewhat beyond the usual practice of answering just as many questions as he had to in order to be confirmed. |
I believe it is a little too soon for Attorney General Gonzales to move up, |
I believe it is important and timely for you to make a full public response on the propriety of your ruling on cases involving Vanguard and Smith Barney, Inc., at times when you had money invested in Vanguard Mutual Funds and Smith Barney, Inc., was your brokerage firm. |