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brooklynite

(94,592 posts) Sun Feb 14, 2016, 12:14 PM Feb 2016

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Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee

Charles Grassley (IA), Chair
Patrick Leahy (VT), Ranking Member
Orrin Hatch (UT)
Jeff Sessions (AL)
Lindsey Graham (SC)
John Cornyn (TX)
Michael Lee (UT)
Ted Cruz (TX)
Jeff Flake (AZ)
David Vitter (LA)
David Perdue (GA)
Thom Tillis (NC)
Dianne Feinstein (CA)
Charles Schumer (NY)
Dick Durbin (IL)
Sheldon Whitehouse (RI)
Amy Klobuchar (MN)
Al Franken (MN)
Chris Coons (DE)
Richard Blumenthal (CT)

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Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee (Original Post) brooklynite Feb 2016 OP

What a mess. nm rhett o rick Feb 2016 #1

My thoughts exactly.......nt 2naSalit Feb 2016 #3

So a nominee has to get past them first? Gregorian Feb 2016 #2

Cruz? Ugh. Maybe he will be too busy campaigning to show up for long hearings. femmocrat Feb 2016 #4

That does not bode well. NV Whino Feb 2016 #5

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)

1. What a mess. nm

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 12:19 PM

Feb 2016

2naSalit

(86,646 posts)

3. My thoughts exactly.......nt

Reply to rhett o rick (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 12:46 PM

Feb 2016

Gregorian

(23,867 posts)

2. So a nominee has to get past them first?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 12:22 PM

Feb 2016

Not a nice group.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

4. Cruz? Ugh. Maybe he will be too busy campaigning to show up for long hearings.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 01:30 PM

Feb 2016

The democrats all seem rock solid though and unlikely to put up with the republicans' shenanigans. There are going to be some nasty battles ahead.

NV Whino

(20,886 posts)

5. That does not bode well.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 02:07 PM

Feb 2016

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