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And his written questions for the record, i cannot support this nomination. thank you very much. >> thank you. senator from utah. >> well, thank you, mr. chairman. before making a few comments about the nomination of judge neil gorsuch, i want to remind my colleagues about the committee's traditional practice regarding supreme court nominees. that practice was memorialized in a letter signed in june 2001 by incoming chairman patrick leahy, and by myself as the then ranking member on this committee. mr. chairman, i ask consent that that letter be placed in the record at this point. >> without o...

Bombers, the two at that stadium, where we hear the two explosions, we hear that they were perhaps trying to get into the stadium and have it a appear live on world television. >> it certainly brings back the days in the early, between someone and 2005 when some european cities were racked by suicide bombings, i don't want to make any comparisons because i don't think that israel has had anything like the horrific attacks in paris. but the suicide bombings, that is very familiar to israelis. the first was one that took place outside a disco in june 2001 and there is something that is very remi...

Yesterday, largely along party lines. it would drastically change medicare and create only two income tax brackets, but there is no chance of it ever passing the democratically controlled senate. congressman paul ryan of wisconsin, who wrote that budget plan, is expected to endorse mitt romney for president today. former president george h.w. bush gave romney his endorsement yesterday. the lawyers for andrea yates, the texas mother who drowned her five children in june 2001, is asking that she be allowed a weekly two-hour pass to go to church. in a 2006 retrial, yates was found not guilty ...

Called, what they say is, i don't understand, what's the big deal? all these quotes all through the story. it's just what it's called. i don't understand why it would offend anybody. it's quite clear, it's not, we'd like to be from a long ago past, if you read the story it's actually not. >> it's interesting he put that in. it's important and curable toth that all behind us. there's this tremendous disquiet when something like this emerges precisely because it seems to invalidate that whole story. >> right, right. well, i think when your constituency is made up and is predominantly white as a ...

All these quotes all through the story. it's just what it's called. i don't understand why it would offend anybody. it's quite clear, it's not, we'd like to be from a long ago past, if you read the story it's actually not. >> it's interesting he put that in. it's important that we have put that all behind us. there's this tremendous disquiet when something like this emerges precisely because it seems to invalidate that whole story. >> right, right. well, i think when your constituency is made up and is predominantly white as a conservative movement is right now, you have to answer some pretty ...