Trent Lott: “I know they are looking at some of them. I will note 4 years ago at this time, I believe there were 50 Federal judges…”

“I know they are looking at some of them. I will note 4 years ago at this time, I believe there were 50 Federal judges that had been nominated that were left either in the committee or on the Calendar. Numberwise, I think we are probably in much better shape than the situation was 4 years ago. And I must say, I am pleased that I was able to work with Members on both sides of the aisle in July, for the most part, and early August. We cleared 17 judges, some of whom had been pending on the Calendar for 6 or 7 months--17 out of 23. So we did pretty good work. Some of them were controversial, and it took more than one try. In fact, I think I tried 3 times on a block of 9 judges, but we did get 17 of them done. I thought that was good progress.”