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The majority leader. For the past eight years we have had a president who selected nominees for a nations judiciary based upon what became known as the empathy standard, the empathy standard. An ideological litmus test designed to find judicial nominees who would favor certain groups or individuals over others. Its a great standard if you are the party in the case of the judge youhy have empathy for. Its not so great if you are the other person. Not only does the standard deny every litigant a fair shake, it also disregards our nations bedrock legal tradition of dissenting equal justice under ...

Will be allocated. 20 members, 21 members seeking recognition. Well, mr. Chairman, it seems to me that this is a matter of petition importance so the members should have an adequate amount of time, i dont want to prolong this, but i dont think we should cut off debate on a matter of this seriousness and therefore i must register by objection to this request. Withdraw the request. You have been watching some of the debate by members of the House Judiciary Committee on article ii, the abuse of power aimed at the impeachment of president richard n. Nixon, and joining us from new york is tim nafta...

The United States wants him ahead of the march toward elections. The conversation appears to center on a possible operation to secure the tomb of the one shop grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman Empire in an area of Northern Syria largely controlled by militant islamists. Were in rescue work to continue their efforts to rein in their own exhausted searching for bodies and perhaps a miracle atop the pile of building debris that may wait to ink wash it down and killed at least twenty five people more than two hundred people are working on the twenty two clinging to hope that at least one s...

Concerned, but obviously iran con body will be blaming the government. Both sides do not expect any opportunity to play me. Java. And this of course will become more intense, particularly interested in. Yes, i would imagine that as him on con, spokesmen was, was telling us before they have had and they say that they have been very concerned that this kind of thing might happen. And there he was suggesting that they had evidence that there was something might occur along these lines. There are going to be questions of course, asked about the level of security surrounding him run con, given had ...

I think its very important that youre holding this hearing, and let me briefly explain why. In the aftermath of the attacks of september 11, 2001, the overwhelming focus of our government and of the American People was on the threat of terrorism. 12 years later this is no longer the case. Our loss of focus is in part a consequence of the success we have achieved, namely, that we have not had another catastrophic attack on our homeland since that terrible Tuesday Morning in september of 2001. But pride in this achievement must be tempered by an awareness of some harsh realities. First, al qaeda...