Nevada's junior senator is the fourth-ranking Republican in the U.S. Senate and has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2012. We talk with Ensign about President Obama's nomination of Federal Appeal Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court; Ensign's opposition to Obama's federal stimulus plan; his criticism of the nation's projected $1.7 billion budget for the current fiscal year; the collapse of this region's housing market; and a possible Ensign presidential bid in 2012.

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