are the epitome of the 'throw money at the problem' approach repeatedly rejected by administration spokesmen.

There is a little different approach in confirmation of the chief justice, ... I'm concerned about the conferences, about bringing the court together.

I do hope that when we in the Congress, both in this body -- when responsibilities come to the Senate -- and the other body, in the House of Representatives, there will be an approach which is bipartisan and nonpartisan in nature,

It's an opportunity to have a different approach of collegiality, ... I argued a case in the Supreme Court a few years back and Chief Justice Rehnquist ran a stopwatch, interrupted in mid-sentence. The word is he was looking for a way to interrupt somebody in the middle of the word 'if.'

I think there needs to be a collegial, modest approach to try to bring the court together so that we have some idea of continuity and what these decisions mean and their staying power,

His approach of modesty, of stability, and away from judicial activism, I think, is a model. Whether it is carried out, remains to be seen.