nine of the 17 that did shake up in the usual way, but in five of the cases, justice stevens, kennedy ben's word and briar basham ginsberg and briar -- this posed one of many questions consistent with our current sixth amendment jurisprudence. could a judge, rather than a jury, find it essential to the position of consecutive sentences. i answered yes. in agreement with me were justices stevens, kennedy, briar, and alito. sutton, there was a credit card issuers resort to a federal court to compel arbitration of a dispute with a cardholder. although the issue were itself had convinced that in state court. the cardholder had raised a counterclaim governed by federal law. justices scalia, kennedy, souter and thomas joined me in holding that the issue had to stay on the state court track and their petition for arbitration would not be in federal court. the fourth circuit, whose decision we reviewed was on a different ground of the fourth circuit. third and by far the most prominent of this, the court revisited a case and substantially cut back on the scope of automobile searches. once the scene

on senator kennedy's staff, jeff tights and ben olinsky, terry roney, shawn doeherty, porta wu, and jim are all part of senator kennedy's staff and some of them are here on the floor and i thank them immensely. and senator durbin's staff, tom poletti has been terrific in this effort. we thank tom for his work. greg dean and amy milberg. we thank you immensely from senator enzi's staff. worked very, very hard on this. and i want to thank jim fenton in my office and rachel holt and jeremy sharpe, who's sitting next to me here, for picking up a lot on this effort, along with senator kennedy's staff and senator enzi's staff and making this moment happen. there are members of the majority leader's staff as well that we always have to thank that -- lula and tim and others who really made this possible, the floor staff as well. we thank you all very much for what you do in making these moments possible. and again, as senator durbin has said and senator enzi and others have said, this is an historic moment for our chamber to be able to do something that 50 years ago -- monica fife, i should hav

ben who will pitch tomorrow he is 22. will be 23 until september. >> gary: 1-2 delivery. kennedy over.oing what the orioles are doing only their rookies are younge