Transcript of Michael Brown's Confirmation Hearing

http://www.voluntarytrade.org/downloads/Brown_ConfirmHrg.pdf (PDF format)


Enjoy.




BTW, does anyone know the vote count for Brown's confirmation on Aug. 1, 2002? I can't find it. Seems others can't, either:

http://blog.mises.org/blog/archives/004054.asp

a part of Homeland Security...

I also haven't had time to pore over that document to see what other lies might be in it.

a vote -- I vaguely remember hearing something along these lines...

May not be a count.

At least that is my understanding.

I didn't try searching there.


Hmm...should at least be a news article somewhere.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r107:15:./temp/~r107Ppit8I::



Along with a bazillion others. Just a rubber-stamp.

to appoint whomever he wants" is horseshit . . . the Democrats have consistently given Bush appointees a pass with little or no scrutiny based on the supposition that a president should be able to appoint his own people without interference from the opposition . . . and look where it's gotten us . . .

every Bush appointment from here on out should be scrutinized with a fine tooth comb . . . including that of Chief Justice . . . and if the appointees aren't qualified, they should be rejected . . . having high government officials actually who are actually qualified to do the jobs they're appointed to is simply too important to leave it to political cronyism . . .