Sotomayor Hearing Features a Newly Liberated Specter
“Now on to the issues. … I begin with an area of cases which the court has decided not to decide,— Specter then said.
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“Now on to the issues. … I begin with an area of cases which the court has decided not to decide,— Specter then said.
But that’s clearly not what I intended in the context of my broader speech,— Sotomayor said, arguing that her record demonstrates that she has acted fairly and without bias.But Sessions was undeterred
“I am disappointed that it is taking this long,— said Dave Wenhold, president of the American League of Lobbyists.
“I was told early on, when I was tempted to sing a line or two of a song when I got on the floor, that the last guy that did that … lost his election,— Hall said.
“I was trying to play on … words. My play fell flat. It was bad because it left an impression that I believe that life experiences command a result in a case.
“We are now closer to our goal of health care reform than we have ever been,— he said.
Here’s Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander’s (Tenn.) take: “I can’t imagine passing a health care bill without debating it fully and amending it over a several week period of time.— </
that judges be impartial and follow the law without prejudice.
“As I made clear at the time it was passed, the [American] Recovery [and Reinvestment] Act was not designed to work in four months — it was designed to work over two years,— the president said.
They have to find ways to make criminal cases without drawing in legislative acts,— Brand said.
“Thus far, I think the president’s sitting back seeing what can be done and what can’t be done before he makes a decision.
If we didn’t research these things, they’d slip through without a second thought.— But the formalized way in which the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security staff seemed to treat the level
Their reaction caused Frank to reconsider the insult, and a moment later he added this: “Let me amend what I said and refer to those thin-skinned Members with Senate envy.’— Double-zing!
“He’s no longer with the caucus,— CPC spokesman Carl Rauscher said.
series of votes on the Homeland Security appropriations bill.With the Senate engaged in a series of seven consecutive votes Thursday night, Ensign was able to go about his business on the Senate floor without
“The concerns you have about the definition of investigation, I don’t share,— he said.
That series of events causes him to re-evaluate his life, and he resolves to do his job strictly for the benefit of the taxpayer, without regard to certain regulations and office niceties.
“I think it’s a reflection of the generational change of the Senate,— Burr said. “I think it’s a good thing. … You saw the same thing happen in the House [GOP] last year.
But Miller emphasized that it wouldn’t be fail-proof — “hiccups,— she said, are unavoidable. The current system is “very fragile, and it has a tendency to fail on occasion,— she said.
“I felt like because of the misrepresentation of data by Democratic groups, there needed to be information injected as to the environment in North Carolina because the political environment in North