[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 16]
[House]
[Pages 22114-22115]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      VOTE ON JUDGE WILLIAM PRYOR

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, our judicial system is under attack. The 
weapon of choice? The filibuster.
  As cases back up in the Federal courts, some politicians are using 
the filibuster to prevent a vote on several highly-qualified, well-
respected judicial nominees, and one of these nominees is William 
Pryor, highly-principled and well-qualified nominee for the Federal 
bench. Opponents to his nomination say that his personal views will 
prevent him from being an effective judge, but experience proves 
otherwise.
  His conduct during the Alabama Ten Commandments case has proven that 
his professionalism enables him to carry out and enforce current 
constitutional jurisprudence. In fact, it is his opponents who are 
allowing their personal views to stand in the way of carrying out the 
constitutional duty of filling Federal judicial vacancies.

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  It is that intolerance of anyone who disagrees with their political 
views that has brought our judicial system to a halt, and that is not 
right.

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