[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 66 (Wednesday, May 18, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H3440]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        HARRY REID AND FBI FILES

  (Mrs. MILLER of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to voice my 
concerns about a character assassination. This is a 21st-century form 
of McCarthyism being perpetrated by the Democratic leadership in the 
United States Senate.
  I was deeply troubled by the Senate minority leader's statement on 
the floor of the Senate on Thursday about His Honor Judge Henry Saad of 
my home State of Michigan. Judge Saad, whose nomination to the Sixth 
Circuit Court of the United States Court of Appeals has been obstructed 
by the Democrats in the Senate, was unfairly and unjustly targeted by 
the Senator during the debate about filibustering.
  The minority leader publicly alluded to Judge Saad's confidential FBI 
file. He intimated there was something troubling or at the least 
disconcerting in the file. These FBI files are raw. They have not been 
fully vetted, and every judicial nominee has one. What is most 
troubling to me is that the Senate minority leader either knew, or 
should have known, that this was a low blow. He either knew, or should 
have known, that Judge Saad cannot even see his own file. He cannot 
even defend himself. The Senator is smearing a man who is not allowed 
to respond by the Senate's own rules. That, of course, is hitting below 
the belt.
  Mr. Speaker, the Senator is instituting a modern-day version of 
McCarthyism. I ask him to stop smearing and to start leading.

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