Facts on Judges

[mbali]

- Senate Republicans filibustered hundreds of Clinton nominees in Committee, including 63 judicial nominees and more than 200 executive branch nominees.

- Republicans also filibustered several Clinton nominees on the floor of the Senate, including Richard Paez, Marsha Berzon, Rosemary Barkett, and H. Lee Sarokin.

- Republicans even defeated two of President Clinton’s nominations to short-term appointments, Dr. Henry Foster (nominated to be Surgeon General) and Sam Brown (nominated to be an Ambassador) by staging filibusters on the floor.

- 9 of President Clinton's nominees pended longer than any of President Bush's nominees, including Owen, Pickering, Kuhl and Estrada and never got a floor vote.

- 168 (98%) of Bush's judicial nominees have been confirmed.

- Only 4 (2%) of Bush's judicial nominees have been filibustered.

- 63% (20%) of Clinton's judicial nominees were blocked.

[RobertSeattle]

1. I believe the GOP's name for this caper is

"Defense of Hypocrisy 2003"

[jbfam4]

2. The facts don't lie.

This 30 hour debate just show what hypocrites the GOP party are.

Where are their priorities? Where was the 30 hour debate on going to war with Iraq? EVERY gop senator voted to give their duty and responsibility of going to war to the president.......they played politics with all of those lives lost in Iraq. Our country is in sad shape when the GOP party has no back bone . Where are their morals.....this was an immoral war based on lies.

Why are they doing the work of the President ? They are supposed to be doing the work of the people!

This makes a mockery out of our government. The record speaks for itself.....168 confirmed and four not. The numbers do not lie.

Hopefully, this will backfire, and the people will speak and vote them out of office.

With all the important things in the world and they focus on judges. It appears that the judges are more important then the reasons for going to war.

[spooky3]

3. thanks for these facts.