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Chuck Schumer: “I am rising in opposition to Priscilla Owen, and I have a whole bunch of points I would like to make. But I would like…”

On the recordApril 29, 2003
I am rising in opposition to Priscilla Owen, and I have a whole bunch of points I would like to make. But I would like to just answer my good friend from Utah on two. He constantly is using the word right now, ``obstruction.'' It would seem logical by his definition that nonobstruction is only when we approve every judge the President has nominated. The fact is that there are 119 who have been approved and only 3, if you include Judge Pickering in this--that is, Miguel Estrada, Priscilla Owen, and Judge Pickering--only 3 have been held up. Is it fair, I ask my friend from Utah, to call that obstruction?
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York
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Opposing the nomination of Priscilla Owen during Senate floor debate.

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