Arlen Specter Quotes on Congress (9 Quotes)

I do hope that when we in the Congress, both in this body -- when responsibilities come to the Senate -- and the other body, in the House of Representatives, there will be an approach which is bipartisan and nonpartisan in nature,

At any rate, Congress hasn't acted, and that's really what the focus of our hearing is today as to what ought to be done.

Members of Congress are irate about the Court's denigrating and, really, disrespectful statements about Congress' competence, ... method of reasoning.

overturned almost 60 years of Congress' power under the Commerce Clause.

An imperial president has become more imperial, simply because the Congress has not taken steps to secure its power of the purse.

Specter's most surprising move in preparing for the hearing came on Aug. 8, when he used a letter to Roberts to assail the current Supreme Court on matters in which the nominee had no hand. Members of Congress are irate about the Court's denigrating and, really, disrespectful statement's about Congress's competence, ... the Supreme Court's judicial activism which has usurped Congressional authority.

The president's fiscal year '07 budget proposal is going to require substantial modifications by the Congress.

If we give up the power of the purse, which is what is at issue here, then it really reduces the Congress to the state of being a eunuch,

On Aug. 8 Specter sent Roberts a similar letter regarding Supreme Court cases that overturned laws dealing with interstate commerce. Members of Congress are irate about the Court's denigrating and, really, disrespectful statements about Congress's competence, ... any real justification for the Court's denigrating Congress's 'method of reasoning' in our constitutional structure of separation of power.