[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 49 (Thursday, April 21, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H2398]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


   FILIBUSTERS PART OF THE DEMOCRATS' CYNICAL CAMPAIGN OF OBSTRUCTION

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Madam Speaker, Senate Democrats are blocking votes on 
qualified judicial nominees. Each of these nominees would receive the 
majority support of most Senators in a vote. So it was interesting when 
Democrats say exposing these obstructionist tactics is un-American, in 
the words of one Senator.
  The fact is Democrats oppose these judges because they support judges 
who say the Ten Commandments, the Pledge, and prayer in public are 
illegal. They support judges who have no fear of legislating from the 
bench. They oppose judges who share the same values as most of America. 
But they do not want people to know that. They would rather keep that 
all under wraps.
  But there is a growing voice in this country that is calling them 
out. Senate Democrats and their liberal allies at the ACLU and People 
for the American Way have declared people of faith ineligible to serve 
on the Federal bench. This strategy represents the worst that our 
Nation's leaders have to offer, using religious conviction as an excuse 
for obstructionism in the Senate. It is all part of a cynical campaign 
of obstructionism.

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