anyway, while visiting nixon decides rehnquist looks pretty good. when he learned he was number one of his class of stanford there was just no doubt that this was the man he wants to select and he asks john mitchell as the attorney general to go back to howard baker and withdraw the nomination which insure he was quite relieved don. so it happened in a less than organized way. the vetting process was bad. i got a very bad call. nixon was holding it so close to his vest he wasn't telling anybody on the staff who he selected not even the chief of staff bob haldeman which was highly unusual. so rehnquist went through no vetting and as a result in his confirmation process, he made some dreadful mistakes that have haunted his tenure on the court ever since. .. >> many sessions to prepare a person to go on the bench. that has actually been good and bad. you don't get full answers or learn much about the nominee. it is like a candidate out on the stump to stays on message and 60's if they stay on message. that seems to be the way to get on the court today

and at the very last minute just before i spoke, chief justice rehnquist took a visit. he offended me, i saw the guy, because i'm irish, i started crossing out my speech and winged it. i spent months just crabbing to my staff, why did i do that? i've wanted to say something. my staff and some of whom are here tonight got so fed up listening to me campaign about it they printed up the brochure which is essentially the lost closing argument. they made up 5,000. here, shut up. quit complaining. you are going to be in congress for a long time. wherever you go, pass these out, when you run out, we'll make up more. you do this for the rest of your life. the problem is not only long after that, i was defeated. i came with 4,950 of these things in the back of my car. so for those of you who get a book tonight or order one from the foundation online, you not only will get a signed book, you will be the proud possessor, you will now forever what i intended to say in the impeachment trial. i want to thank you for coming and appreciation you being here. i hope you enjoy the book. t

remind the senate where this started, going back to the tphopbgs of william -- nomination of william rehnquist in 1971, democrats used the filibuster to delay or defeat judicial nominees. fortunately, it is a rare occasion. there have been a total of 46 cloture votes, including this one, on 32 different judicial nominations in american history. of the 32 judicial nominees subject to cloture vote, 22 were against republican-nominated judges, between 1971 and the year 2000 there were 11 cloture votes on judicial nominees. most of those filibusters attempted by democrats were unsuccessful, and cloture was invoked. however, beginning in 2002, senate democrats changed the rules. i ask to put the rest of my statement in the record, and i would also ask for additional statements -- opportunities to put documents in the record in opposition to the nomination. the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: mr. president, i'd ask consent that my full statement be made part of the record. the presiding officer: without objec

and whether there could be added punishment for a hate crime and an opinion written by chief justice rehnquist acknowledged that social science finding of the added harm to the individual in society that comes from hate crimes because of the added hate aspect. >> thank you. commissioner heriot? >> my question is also for doctors herek and meyer. i just barely started looking at the empirical literature but so far i'm thinking there might be a tension here. on the one hand there's the i'm okay, you're okay, everybody is okay -- or almost everybody is okay line in the literature. and i'm thinking of the work of dr. rich williams and if i understand him, he is looking at the data. i assume very similar data to what you're looking at. and his point is that if you take the bisexual community out of the equation, you really don't run across higher mental health issues or higher suicide rates either. the rates are about the same as the heterosexual community and from that he concludes this is just a normal sexual variant and it's all very normal. and everything is fine. on the other hand, there is th

remind the senate where this started, going back to the tphopbgs of william -- nomination of william rehnquist in 1971, democrats used the filibuster to delay or defeat judicial nominees. fortunately, it is a rare occasion. there have been a total of 46 cloture votes, including this one, on 32 different judicial nominations in american history. of the 32 judicial nominees subject to cloture vote, 22 were against republican-nominated judges, between 1971 and the year 2000 there were 11 cloture votes on judicial nominees. most of those filibusters attempted by democrats were unsuccessful, and cloture was invoked. however, beginning in 2002, senate democrats changed the rules. i ask to put the rest of my statement in the record, and i would also ask for additional statements -- opportunities to put documents in the record in opposition to the nomination. the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: mr. president, i'd ask consent that my full statement be made part of the record. the presiding officer: without objec

earlier event, there was a children's choir up on the lower bridge there that sang chief justice william rehnquist mass choirs to the construction people who built this place. so we're just finding this is a remarkable piece of architecture. behind all of those drop screens, you can't see. we have a staff being paid overtime of course for the work they do. the site of the navy's first observatory. back in 1996, i approached an undersecretary of the navy, richard dancey and inquired about whether we could build a facility at the site. the secretary said if the institute can keep us out of just one war, you will have more than justified the deal. well, it is often hard to prove something you have prevented, but we do feel a deep obligation given use of this historic site in this dramatic architecture to fulfill our congressional charter, which is to focus on preventing, managing and resolving international conflicts by political means so so the deadly violence and war, not the outcomes of the many conflict situations which we know exist all around the world. in the years since the institute's creati

that was chief justice rehnquist's nomination. in 1999, they mounted the first successful partisan filibuster of a judicial nominee. that, too, involved a district court nominee, brian stewart. both the chairman of the judiciary committee and the senior senator from rhode island voted to filibuster mr. stewart. and i and all republicans voted actually against filibustering him. our friends' successful filibuster of this nominee is now inconvenient to their narrative about filibuster norms and propriety. they claim that the filibuster doesn't count. i guess they are saying the only -- they only filibustered him to leverage floor votes on other judicial nominees and once they got what they wanted, he was confirmed. i gather this is the coercion exception to the body of filibuster precedent that they have created. in 2003, our friends mounted the first successful filibuster of a circuit court nomination. that would be miguel estrada's nomination. he was filibustered seven times, in fact. our democratic colleagues added to this record