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Jack Kingston: So you have this other body and they have already spent 85 hours debating a guy who the American Bar Association has…

On the recordMarch 5, 2003
So you have this other body and they have already spent 85 hours debating a guy who the American Bar Association has rated as one of the most highly qualified. He has worked under the Clinton administration. He has worked under, I think, even the Carter administration. This guy came to America when he was 17 years old. He was raised in Honduras, did not speak any English. He graduates from Harvard. He is a distinguished lawyer by anybody's measure. And the only thing the Democrats want to do is debate him. Bush wants to put in his own team. We have a war going, but this is the number one issue now for the liberal Democrats.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Discussing the nomination of a highly qualified judicial candidate during a House floor debate.

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