supreme court justices anthony kennedy and stephen breyer testified before a house appropriations subcommittee on thursday about their budget for 2012. topics included the winding down of renovations to the supreme court building in changes to a visitor access, as well as security for the high court and federal judges in general. this is an hour and a half. >> please give my regards to justice thomas and my colleagues as well. it seems strange that he is not here this year, but anyway, we appreciate so much that you all are here. we look forward very much to meeting with you and we will do our best to meet your resource needs this year. an independent judiciary trusted and respected by all u.s. citizens and committing to fairly and expeditiously resolving difficult and controversial question is fundamental to our nation. although the supreme court budget is not large and compared to other programs, i am pleased that you are here today because outside the confirmation process, today's hearing is one of the few instances when we actually get to interact with the judicial branch. it is a worthy i

. >> now supreme court justices anthony kennedy and stephen breyer testifying about their budget for 2012. topics include renovations to the supreme court building and security for the high court and federal judges in general. this hearing is an hour and a half. >> good morning. the hearing will come to order. welcome, justices kennedy and breyer, and thank you all so much for being here today. you both testified before the committee several times, and we appreciate your willingness to be with us again. please give my regards to justice thomas. and mr. womack as well. it seems strange he's not here this year but anyway, we appreciate so much that you all are here, and look forward very much to meeting with you. and we will do our best to meet your resource needs this year. an independent judiciary trusted by all citizens and commit to fairly and expeditiously resolving difficult and controversial questions is fundamental to our nation. although the supreme court budget has not large in comparison to other federal programs, i am pleased you're here today because outside the confirmati

anthony, good afternoon. >> hey, mr. kennedy, thank you so much and i commend woc for having such a kind rapport with the callers. you're very patient. i do appreciate this opportunity to speak. as far as president obama not having being a citizen potentially, when you consider the heavy footprint that the united states has throughout the world, what would be so bad as to have a leader of the world. i'm pretty certain and a caller had called you yesterday and mentioned that his brother is an american citizen. if that's the -- mother is an american citizen. no matter where she had him, he would be an american citizen. what concerns me most, i would vote for president obama. what troubled me when he came into office, he granted immunity to the telephone industry for violating the constitution. that troubled me mostly because as a constitutional law scholar, for him to allow such lawsuits to be stopped and to grant immunity for violating the constitution, i thought he was the one hope for some form of justice or at least to review

kennedy $7,000. kristin gillibrand of new york and anthony weiner. more from the "new york daily news". eustis from new orleans. since we have heard from you. caller: been some time but i had to call in for donald trump. there was the statement by trump about obama being a crook or mobster in chicago but in new when the mafia control consumption i'm sure he had to meet some of the mobsters and he sounds like one. the image is not really good and we are just waiting for the nomination day. host: don't be a stranger. phone again. another tweeter saying yes another successful businessman for u.s. president as if bush wasn't enough. he bankrupted everything that he touched. kathleen parker reality tv g.o.p. says a number of republicans declaring themselves potential candidates is looking like a conga line without music hopefully unnoticed is brilliant dark horse pwaebiding his time. schumer the miracle would occur and the candidate would emerge at just the right moment to rescue the hrbelectorate. we have a call from san antonio, democrat line. caller: good morning. i would like to say that