Saxby Chambliss: “I concur with everything just stated by Senator Thomas. We have been debating this nomination, now, for over a week. As…”

“I concur with everything just stated by Senator Thomas. We have been debating this nomination, now, for over a week. As a new Member of this body, and as a new member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I have a difficult time understanding, as a lawyer, why the delay when you have an individual who has the qualifications this man has, who has the legal background this man has, who has the legal training this man has--both from an educational standpoint as well as a practical standpoint, having practiced law. He clerked for a judge. He was involved with the Government side of practicing law, being in the Solicitor General's Office. He argued cases at the appellate level, at every appellate level all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. He has been very successful at every level in his judicial career. Why, just from a purely legal standpoint, we have not already moved to a vote on this man is just beyond me. But it goes a little further than that. Miguel Estrada is a true success story. He is a man who, if anybody ever lived the American dream, is living it. He is a man who, at 17 years of age, came to the United States from Honduras speaking very little English. He is a man who was not self-taught but who entered the educational system in this country and took advantage of that educational system, just the way all Americans subscribe to do.”