Harry Reid: “I was involved in a long conference with the Hispanic caucus yesterday. This organization met long and hard with Miguel…”

“I was involved in a long conference with the Hispanic caucus yesterday. This organization met long and hard with Miguel Estrada. They met for 3 hours on one occasion, and based upon that and other issues they raised in their letter, they thought they could not support him. As I stated earlier today, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has supported, and will continue to support, other Bush judicial nominees who are Hispanic, and they have already done so. I mentioned a number of names earlier. They can speak for themselves. They are Members of the other body and do not have authority to speak here, but if they could speak, they would speak loudly, with a lot of articulation, about the fact that this man is not qualified, in their opinion. They are entitled to that opinion. This debate should focus on the qualifications of this man.”