And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.
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Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.
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And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.
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As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.
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Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents.
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The Committee On Public Morals
The Senate met in Sacramento city;
On public morals it had no committee
Though greatly these abounded. Soon the quiet
Was broken by the Senators in riot.
Now, at the end of their contagious quarrels,
There's a committee but no public morals.
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For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.
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This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted.
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'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
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We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought the public along with us, trying to make as much available as possible over time.
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All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
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Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.
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As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.
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A Change You Can't Believe In
A Change You Can't Believe In
A change you might believe in
Was slowly compromised,
And nothing was accomplished
To better people's lives.
No bold decisive action-
Just posturing on the floor
Of the House and the Senate
And talks behind the door.
The public was left out
From hearings and debates,
Save for some town hall shouts
About the fascist state.
And so a monstrosity
Came to the light of day-
Two thousand plus pages
Of corporate giveaways.
So you can thank Obama
For this historic leap
Into politics as usual,
Where promises are cheap.
December 21,2009
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Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility.
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If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender.
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The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared.
Kiss The Net Goodbye
“It’s for your own good”
The Senators’ did assure
Freedom of speech my eye!
Kiss the “Net” goodbye
Or censorship for sure
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“On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would give the Attorney General the right to shut down websites with a court order if copyright infringement is deemed “central to the activity” of the site — regardless if the website has actually committed a crime. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) is among the most draconian laws ever considered to combat digital piracy, and contains what some have called the “nuclear option, ” which would essentially allow the Attorney General to turn suspected websites “off.”
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We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.
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I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign.
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We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
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