[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21274]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        THE DISSERVICE TO MIGUEL ESTRADA AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today appalled that an extremist 
minority in the other body has forced Miguel Estrada, an excellent and 
well-qualified attorney, to withdraw his name as a candidate for 
nomination to the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. As 
chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee and as cochairman of the 
Working Group on Judicial Accountability, I have been actively 
following the fight over the President's nominations, and I am shocked 
by the obstructionism that has taken place.
  Prohibiting an up-or-down vote on this outstanding nominee is not 
only a disservice to Miguel Estrada, it is a disservice to the American 
people. In a time of rampant Federal judicial vacancies, the partisan 
politics employed by the minority in the other body is nothing short of 
an outrage and it has to stop.

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