Arlen Specter Hearings Quotations

We're not going to start these hearings until you're prepared. And she said November 7th she'd be ready to go.

There is a great mystique of the Senate Caucus Room, ... We are going to open up the hearings there.

It is our expectation that we will be able to complete the hearings that week,

We'll start hearings at noon on 9 January,

And that's why I believe -- and I have seen with my experience in the Senate the value of public hearings -- when FBI Director Mueller has to answer these questions, when CIA Director Tenet has to answer why the president wasn't warned in the August 6 briefing about the tall buildings being in jeopardy, the White House and the CIA headquarters.

It is up to the congressional hearings to make a detailed estimation as to the accuracy of representations made by HHS as to robust, viable and diverse lines, ... bovine serum.

It is unfair to start the hearings before she's ready,

It has been my experience that the hearings are a subtle minuet with nominees answering as many questions as they think they have to in order to be confirmed.

But I think that it is important to elevate the public consciousness as to what is going on. The four hearings we have had and the way the matter is drifting, in my view, is insufficient to safeguard civil liberties.

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.

The hearings will not start until there is a date agreeable to her, ... It would be unfair to start the hearings before she is ready.

The hearings will be focused on how she approaches constitutional issues, her capacity to handle them,