12/08/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"These Republican staffers stole 4,670 files, and they used them to assist in getting President Bush's most controversial judicial nominees confirmed."
"In a way, it was considered by many, both Republicans and Democrats, as a digital Watergate."
"This is the most incomplete, most partisan, least transparent vetting for any Supreme Court nominee I have ever seen."
"I represented Vermont here for 44 years. I served with pride here, believing that the Senate can be and should be the conscience of the Nation."