justice roberts in his responses cited in this letter to questions posed at his hearing by senator dewine and myself? i do believe that there will be an opportunity for very important issues to be presented to the nominee based on what i have seen of her, in reviewing her record, and the meeting that i had with her, i have noted her excellent resume and looking forward to giving her an opportunity to answer the many questions raised in the press where she will have more of an opportunity to have a sound bite, but to give commentary on her record in support of her nomination. i thank t c c c c c call be dis. the presiding officer: without objection. a senatormr. sessions: the nomif a new justice to the supreme court of the united states brings to our minds a core question both for the senate and the american people, than is what is the proper role of a federal judge in our republic? answering this question is not simply an academic task. it's fundamental to what we will be doing here. how the american people and their representatives and their senators, the ones who have been delegated tha

justice roberts in his responses cited in this letter to questions posed at his hearing by senator dewine and myself? i do believe that there will be an opportunity for very important issues to be presented to the nominee based on what i have seen of her, in reviewing her record, and the meeting that i had with her, i have noted her excellent resume and looking forward to giving her an opportunity to answer the many questions raised in the press where she will have more of an opportunity to have a sound bite, but to give commentary on her record in support of her nomination. i thank the chair and yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. a senator: i'd like to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. corker: mr. president, i thank you. i rise today to speak briefly about a bill that senator warner from virginia and myself will be offering later today. the title will be the tarp recipient ownership trust act of 2009. this bill intends to deal with the issue that our government find

or not, at long last, a decade later our colleague from massachusetts, senator kennedy, mite, mike dewine, our former colleague from ohio, henry waxman from california, tom davis of virginia in a bipartisan basis have tried year in and year out to get this done. we haven't been able to achieve it. so i know the game. but this is not a game. this is life and death with people. for 10 long years we've. mr. bennet: able to pass legislation -- mr. dodd: for 10 long years we've not been able to pass this legislation. if people are going to insist on long-term amendments based 0 on a short-term appeal, we will have done great damage. so i appreciate immensely the position the majority leader has taken. and my colleagues know because i did go through the process last week in our committee. there are any number of appealing amendments. and i want to thank the members of the committee who wanted to vote for some of those amendments. i see my good friend jeff merkley from oregon here, a member of the committee. there are a number of amendments that he and i would have liked to have supported includ

involved in it in the name of ted kennedy, in the name of others who is come before us, mike defin dewine of ohio who championed this along with henry waxman in the other body and the thousands of organization whose have joined us today. mr. durbin: i thank the senator from connecticut for his leadership on this issue. just a few week he had historic legislation on credit card reform. senator enzi, thank you for making this a true bipartisan effort. we wouldn't be here today without your cooperative effort and i thank senator dodd for invoking the name of our great hero, ted kennedy, who really started this fight. in just a few minutes, this senate will make a historic decision and i think they'll make the right decision. joe camel will be given a life sentence and put away forever and we're going to give our kids and our families across america a fighting chance for a better life. this bill is historic. it's been a long time coming. thank you for all your hard work to make it possible. mr. dodd: i yield the floor. y mr. enzi: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming