This was the nomination before us, and our committee has done the best we could to handle this nomination fairly and fully.
The deal did not establish new rules for handling of nominations to lower courts or federal agencies.
Mr. Cornyn personifies the competing pressures Republicans face as they sort through how to handle the nomination of Judge Sotomayor, who is under attack from the right but is a symbol of pride for Hispanic Americans.
Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Republican leader, said in the hallway today that he felt "disappointment" about the way Democrats handled the nomination and that Mr. Ashcroft had been denied the senators' traditional cordiality to former colleagues.
NIH-watchers in Washington, D.C., say that the Senate committee that handles this nomination will not hold a confirmation hearing, the forum where any controversies are usually aired.
The parties will also negotiate sensitive matters like the handling of presidential nominations and whether the two parties will share subpoena powers for committee hearings.
Rick Santorum, No. 3 in the Senate Republican leadership, is right that tradition has been broken in the handling of judicial nominations, but he's wrong about who broke it (news article, April 13).
A two-term governor who retired last year, Mr. Miller arrives in the Senate amid partisan discord; this week Democrats virtually shut down the Senate, objecting to the way Republicans are handling federal judicial nominations.
"The committee that handles foreign film nominations actually do have a more rigorous process, where people have to check in for the screenings at the Academy and verify that they've seen them all before they're allowed to vote," says Crudo.
"Seventy percent of the appointments this governor has made, we've acted on," said Senator Nicholas P. Scutari, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which handles many of the nominations.
