I don't want this new (advisory) committee to tell us what to do -- or they're going to take our support from us. Where were they a year ago? We put ourselves on the line because we love this agency.

For the long term, the best way to help is to support local nonprofits, ... [Katrina evacuees] will be with us for a while, and we are the ones that are prepared to handle this long term and go the distance.

We will support people who have the courtesy to talk to us, and who would stop pitting us against our neighbors. It's horrible.

We wanted to back the president, and sought evidence to support this nomination, but we find this Supreme Court nominee unqualified and her record troubling. However, we look forward to a nomination that we can wholeheartedly endorse.

Hopefully, we can make some good cuts without affecting education. We don't want to cut the teachers or supplies. Education is the bottom line.

Somebody is feeding the paper information. I leave here and it's in the paper before I get home.