Arlen Specter Congress Quotations

The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.

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,

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

Isn't there a lack of respect for Congress demonstrated by the Supreme Court, as Justice Scalia points out that it is 'ill advised' for the court to set itself up as 'taskmaster' to determine that Congress has done its 'homework'?

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

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.

I certainly would not want to see a situation evolve where some intervening event occurred which might have been prevented had Congress acted more promptly,