Patrick Leahy: “I have only been on the committee 25 years, but I cannot remember a time during those 25 years--in fact, the Senator…”

“I have only been on the committee 25 years, but I cannot remember a time during those 25 years--in fact, the Senator from Nevada may be interested in this. Maybe he was involved in this. Does the Senator recall the day that part of the Capitol Building was evacuated because of the anthrax scare and all the other buildings were evacuated? The distinguished Senator from West Virginia made available his conference room in the Appropriations Committee. We held hearings in that conference room on more judges as the building was being evacuated and held a markup in executive session with 150 of us crowded into one room in the back, the President's Room, to get even more judges out which then the distinguished majority leader put on the calendar within, I think, 24 hours of that time and we were voting on them a couple days after that.”