[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 67 (Thursday, May 19, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H3588]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           JUDICIAL NOMINEES

  (Mr. BONNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to voice my strong concern over 
the unconscionable and harmful stalling tactics we are seeing in the 
confirmation process over in the other body with regard to several 
qualified judicial nominees.
  Two in particular, Justice Janice Rogers Brown, the nominee that the 
gentlewoman was speaking about just a minute ago, and Judge Bill Pryor, 
are outstanding jurists; and I am proud that they are both natives of 
my home State of Alabama.
  Justice Brown is a native of Luverne and the daughter of a 
sharecropper. She has enjoyed an extremely successful career beginning 
on the Third District Court of Appeals in California and continuing for 
the past 9 years on that State's State Supreme Court. Judge Pryor, a 
native of Mobile, was one of our State's finest attorneys general and 
served with distinction during his temporary appointment on the 11th 
circuit of the Court of Appeals.
  Both of these individuals are experts in their field, and both of 
them represent the finest in legal minds anywhere in this country, and 
they deserve a vote.

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