It's never been before the court before, and will be before the court now.

To his credit, he's the first statewide official to say the pay raise was passed in an unconstitutional way.

The Legislative Audit Advisory (Commission) is a sham. The Legislature basically audits itself and the citizens of Pennsylvania do not have a complete and independent account of where all the money goes.

We're looking at a very privileged class of people ? a House of Lords.

Now the next question is, Can we get justice in Pennsylvania? I'm hoping that there's a little kernel of integrity left in the courts whereby we can. But the people, 12 million people, will be watching.

The citizens are in a battle with the legislature, and the citizens are winning. If this is the first step, we will take it. But we are going to keep on going... until they pay back every dime.

There must be ways to cut legislative staff in order to accomplish reductions in the cost of the Legislature. Pennsylvania taxpayers should demand that.

Don't let anybody tell you that the Legislature did this out of some sense of good government. They're running for their political lives. ... There needs to be some new blood in this place.

This is very, very, very good, and I thank Mr. Casey for his support.