Cases that are decided on the merits. Before he was our Supreme Court justice, john roberts was confirmed to sit on the d. C. Circuit. Ten years ago, when chief Justice Roberts was confirmed to sit on that circuit, the average judge on that court had only 125 pending cases. Today, with three vacancies on the court, that number is 185 cases. Those are the complex cases that are pending. Even if we fill all the empty slots, the judges on the d. C. Circuit will still have more pending cases on average than john roberts did when we confirmed him to sit on the d. C. Circuit back in 2003. So there are no excuses here. We have a finally qualified nominee. 32 Supreme Court arguments, support of the Nonpartisan Group that looks at these nominations, someone whose spouse served in the military for 22 years, someone who raised her kids while he was over in kuwait. And we are going to turn her down . Madam president , that makes no sense to me at all. And i really urge my colleagues to help patty
Lets be realistic. What can they do more to slow down the country . What could they do more than they have artie done to stop the senate from legislating . We have all been in congress for a long time. Three of us served in the house. Senator murray has been in the senate for a long time, as have other senior members of the senate. We came here to get things done. All this happy talk coming from my republican friends harry, we know you are right. I say, why dont you vote why do you vote the way you do . They vote together on everything. It is only to discourage the president of the United States. [indiscernible] let him do it. As i said, the country did pretty well for 140 years. I think we are beyond seeing who can out talked the other. Let him do whatever he wants. Will it come back to bite you when you are in the minority . 3 what i said on the floor, this is the way it has to be. The senate has changed. Look at what has happened. If we have a republican president and we think he sh
It is delightful to be back, especially now that i am representing this amazing industry, the platform where everything is bearing off of. Who is ctia . We are the people who build the networks. We are the manufacturers, and we are the App Committee as well as the new silicon valley. We are the connected life. That is what ctia represents and that is what we hope to educate washington about. Im just could not be anymore thrilled to be with them. Host what is the Biggest Issue facing your industry when it comes to washington and regulation . Going our top priority is to be spectrum. Spectrum is what the Wireless Industry needs. It has been six years since we had inspection often a spectrum auction. We have two coming up in the next couple years. The aws 3. Then we have the incentive auction next summer. Were talking about the networks are phones are running on, that spectrum was coming uction thats 1 a happened last time. So spectrum is always going to be our top issue. We are excited a
An alternate standard, obviously there are a number of alternate standards that can be applied. But the important thing to remember is that this program is a discovery program. The whole idea of the program is to identify avenues that warrant investigation into rollout avenues that do not warrant investigation. And the more that you require of the more that you add on to the standard that is required before you can even investigate less useful tool becomes. For example, if you talk about reason to believe the number me lead to contact in the United States, that is exactly what we are trying to find out here. We have got a number. If we have a terrorist phone number, what exactly we are trying to find out is do we have information to think that this may lead to the drooping investigation in the United States . One quick thing, raj, if i could. On the question of followup, there is a very close review of the ras determination itself. What is your review of how the fbi uses the informatio
This has to be part of the game plan going forward. You cant have people in front of 45 judges behaving like it is their first trip in the court. We have to consolidate so judges can make informed decisions about Everything Associated with those things. I have no problem at all. It would be a good idea to have a review that takes place every 10 years or so. Not only should there be a review, they should be reupped by Governors Council or whomever. Should be another vote . I guess what i would say is you can either have a process where they have to be reupped or the review would determine whether or not they would go before the Governors Council. I like the letter better than the former. These are lifetime appointments. We want to make good decisions. That is why we set them up. But they ought to be held accountable. At the same time, everybody ought to know at some point theyre working for the public and taxpayers are paying for it. Lets hear from patricia. I cover social services. Bot