. >> you know, i was -- when i was listening to mr. serra, i was thinking, you know, actually the law is this huge thing. and there are parts of it that work really well. and when i started out, i was a young lawyer at a large wall street law firm. and believe it or not, we did really good work. and since we typically litigate against or are involved with other large corporate law firms, the other people did railly good work. and since we were typically in federal court, the judges were pretty good. so what i'm trying to say is, is it actually works in some levels. you know? it doesn't work when you get down to the criminal level, when you get down to people who are poor, frankly. you know? there's a strait fiction in the law that mirrors the whole society. anyway. i wanted to say that. i've worked on a bunch of television shows. i've thought about this question a lot. and i have no idea how this cycle works. but one of the shows that i really enjoyed was "l.a. law." the reason i liked "l.a. law" was that it was about the kind of business of

serra high school. there is dennis o'donnell doing some auctioning. there is mr. brady. one of his high school shirts sold for $20,000. he gave the keynote address for the fund a dream benefit. >> dennis was having a ball. i saw him live at 6:00. >>> 5:56 now. in the next half hour she missed a moving train with only seconds to spare. a woman's narrow escape caught on tape. >> an all-night battle against a wildfire that still is burning up in napa county. the risk to homes and what crews are up against today. >>> the search continues for a woman who may have been inside a capsized boat along ball lena bay. coming up we'll explain why authorities are wondering whether there is a woman in the first place. >>> and it is d-day for some motions that could change the course of san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi's criminal trial. tell you what we're expecting today coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> a water search after a boat capsized in the east bay. why one woman was rescued and then handcuffed. >>> a big day in court for ross mirkarimi. were some say prosecutors -- why some sa

serra entitled "revolutionary idea." he traces the history of this. his opening remarks include the following -- quote -- "rick santorum is john winthrop." referring of course to mr. winthrop who joined with the puritans in trying to assert that our government needed to stand for puritanical beliefs. and that debate which even predates the constitution is one which molded our country and makes it what it is today. there emerged from that debate over the puritans and what they would do a feeling that there had to be a separation between church and state, religious belief and secular administration of our government. that is the debate that continues today. this generation, regardless of the issue of the day, needs to preserve the same basic values that led to this debate in the early colonies and ultimately to our constitutional principles. as we find countries all over the world bitterly divided, violently divided over religion, we need to take care in our generation that we protect the basics. the president's decision when it comes to health care through the insurance policies protects those basic values. mr. president, i yield the floor. i suggest the absence o