Judicial nominees. Good morning and welcome to todays hearing we welcome everyone especially the nominees to todays nomination hearing. Today we will hear from two panels. On the first panel we will hear from the nominees for six circuit, two of them. On the second panel we will hear from nominees to the District Courts. I understand there are some concerns that senator brown hasnt returned the blue slip. In the past, we have always used the past as a guide and my colleagues on the other side would argue moving forward in the absence of a positive loose left is somehow an unacceptable degradation of the committees norm, of its practices. But as the chair man has noted previously and as i have expressed, the committees current policy is in fact consistent with historical practice and that is because it hasnt been treated as a veto but a consultation between the white house and the senate. To demonstrate that point, i want you to consider the following. First, for the first 228 years in
I understand there are some concerns that senator brown hasnt returned the blue slip. In the past, we have always used the past as a guide and my colleagues on the other side would argue moving forward in the absence of a positive loose left is somehow an unacceptable degradation of the committees norm, of its practices. But as the chair man has noted previously and as i have expressed, the committees current policy is in fact consistent with historical practice and that is because it hasnt been treated as a veto but a consultation between the white house and the senate. To demonstrate that point, i want you to consider the following. First, for the first 228 years in the existence of the senate, the blue slip did not exist at all. It just wasnt a thing and then between 1917 when the blue slip originated in 1955, it was never treated as a veto. In 1956, senator eastwood became the chairman of the committee. He was the first to treat the blue slip as effectively a veto and it wasnt on t
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