Pete Sessions: “I wish to bring my colleagues up to speed on the nomination of Attorney General Bill Pryor from the State of Alabama for…”

“I wish to bring my colleagues up to speed on the nomination of Attorney General Bill Pryor from the State of Alabama for U.S. District Court for the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Bill Pryor is an extraordinary nominee, one of the finest, most decent, most intelligent, and most ethical individuals I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. His reputation throughout the State of Alabama is extraordinary. His career as a lawyer is extraordinary. He would make a magnificent judge on the court of appeals. Bill grew up in Mobile, AL. He attended the Catholic school there, McGill-Toolen. His father was band director there. They were active in their church. They are the kind of family we ought to emulate and lift up and be proud of. I have heard it said that Mr. Pryor was a John Kennedy Democrat in the 1960s. After some of the problems we have had, he probably has changed some of his views about his politics in the last few days. But he is a remarkable man, and his mother and family are remarkable. Bill went to Tulane Law School, one of America's great law schools. He worked very hard. He finished at the top of his class. He was the editor in chief of the Tulane Law Review. The most prestigious position a graduating law senior can have is to be the editor of the law review for the law school. It is a quite an honor. He clerked after that for Judge John Minor Wisdom, one of the great justices on the old Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.”