[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14585]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       BUSH'S JUDICIAL APPOINTEES

  (Mr. CONYERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States is in 
Michigan today complaining of the lack of support he is getting for 
judicial appointments. I, as the ranking member on the Committee on the 
Judiciary, rise to point out to our President that the Senate has 
confirmed 97 percent of the appointees put forward by President Bush 
and that the vacancy rate on the Federal courts is only 5 percent, the 
lowest that it has been in 14 years.
  The rest of my remarks concern why there is opposition, frequently 
from Senate Democrats but Democrats in the other body and sometimes 
Republicans against Ms. Priscilla Owen, Charles Pickering, Miguel 
Estrada, whose nomination was thankfully withdrawn, Carolyn Kuhl, 
William Pryor and Janice Rogers Brown.

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