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Kay Bailey Hutchison: If she has the majority vote on the floor of the Senate, and the Constitution says that advise and consent is not a…

On the recordNovember 12, 2003
If she has the majority vote on the floor of the Senate, and the Constitution says that advise and consent is not a supermajority, that is what it implies because it didn't ask for a supermajority, then why isn't she sitting on the Fifth Circuit bench right now?
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Kay Bailey Hutchison
Republican · Texas

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Discussing the confirmation process for judicial nominees in the Senate.

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