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Patrick Leahy: “My requests that she be called up for a vote before the committee was rejected, and she remains in limbo almost 2 months…”

On the recordMay 14, 1997
My requests that she be called up for a vote before the committee was rejected, and she remains in limbo almost 2 months after her second confirmation hearing and one full year after she was first nominated. There is now what amounts to a secret hold on this nomination in the Judiciary Committee. Some Senator is holding her up. Some Senator doesn't have the courage to come on the floor of the U.S. Senate and say why this woman is objectionable to him. Some Senator will hold her up secretly because he doesn't want to vote on her publicly, even though I guarantee you, if we had a rollcall vote on her, it would be overwhelmingly positive.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the stalled nomination of a candidate in the Judiciary Committee.

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