Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . The yeas and nays are 56, the noes are 50. 40. The motion is agreed to. The presiding officer the clerk will report the nomination. The clerk Madeline Cox Arleo of new jersey to be district judge for the district of new jersey. The presiding officer there will be two minutes of debate equally twieded prior to a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the beetlestone nomination. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senior senator from pennsylvania is recognized. Mr. Casey mr. President , i rise today to speak on this nomination. I know we have very limited time, but this is a nomination of Wendy Beetlestone to be United States District Court judge for the Eastern District of pennsylvania. Shes got great qualifications, a graduate of the university of pennsylvania law school, an honors graduate in her undergraduate institution, has worked now for 19 years at the law firm
Fear, fomenting fear stifles serious debate and constructive solutions. That the carefully drawn reforms in this bill, doing it at the last minute is all the more regrettable. This nation deserves more than that. This nation should not allow our liberties to be set aside by passing fears. America will always face the threat of terrorist attacks both outside our borders and inside. We didnt do away with all our Civil Liberties after the Oklahoma City bombing, even though that was an american who did that, someone who had served in our military, churchgoing, so forth. No more should we do it if the attacks come from outside our country. We talk about 9 11, we have all the evidence necessary to stop 9 11 before it happened. Everybody who has looked at that now agrees, that bothered to translate the material we had, if had bothered to listen to people in minnesota who tried to warn about it, we could have stopped that. But because mistakes were made then, lets not take away the liberties o
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