Pete Sessions: “I note that the Senator made quite clear that elected Senators have the responsibility to decide matters, and they…”

“I note that the Senator made quite clear that elected Senators have the responsibility to decide matters, and they cannot be driven by forces outside. We have to do it on the facts and the law, and he has been honorable and consistent on that. He deserves great praise. Some of the criticism that has come his way from those who are now altering the historic ground rules of confirmation is unjust and wrong. As a former attorney general of Alabama and knowing that the attorney general had the power in Alabama to direct district attorneys on how to enforce certain Alabama laws, I ask the distinguished chairman of the Judiciary Committee is he aware that even though Attorney General Pryor strongly believes that partial-birth abortion is one of the worst forms of abortion of all, that he wrote a letter directing district attorneys to narrowly construe an Alabama partial-birth abortion statute because he had concluded under the Supreme Court law that parts of it was unconstitutional?”