Reply #2: Republicans gave 13 of President Clinton's nominees a hearing in 1998 [View All]

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Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy
Senate Judiciary Committee
Judicial Nominations Hearing
July 9, 2003

Today’s hearing is the thirteenth nominations hearing the Republican majority has held this year. As of today, during the past six months, the Senate Judiciary Committee has considered 43 of President Bush’s judicial nominees. This stands in sharp contrast to the way President Clinton’s nominees were treated by the Republican majority. Thirteen is the same number of hearings for judicial nominees as Chairman Hatch allowed in all of 1998, the year he held the most hearings in any of his six full years as chairman during the Clinton Administration. In most of those years, there were far fewer hearings and far fewer nominees.
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http://www.senate.gov/~leahy/press/200307/070903.html

Total number of President George W. Bush judges confirmed: 145
http://judiciary.senate.gov/nominations.cfm