Steve Chabot: “I rise today appalled that an extremist minority in the other body has forced Miguel Estrada, an excellent and…”

“I rise today appalled that an extremist minority in the other body has forced Miguel Estrada, an excellent and well-qualified attorney, to withdraw his name as a candidate for nomination to the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. As chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee and as cochairman of the Working Group on Judicial Accountability, I have been actively following the fight over the President's nominations, and I am shocked by the obstructionism that has taken place. Prohibiting an up-or-down vote on this outstanding nominee is not only a disservice to Miguel Estrada, it is a disservice to the American people. In a time of rampant Federal judicial vacancies, the partisan politics employed by the minority in the other body is nothing short of an outrage and it has to stop.”