Date: January 12, 2006
Senator: Specter
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SPECTER: Thank you, Senator Coburn.
I had hoped to finish up this evening. But the sense of the proceeding at this point is that it's not a wise thing to do. This panel took an hour and 15 minutes. And projecting with a break, we'd be in the 10:00 range or perhaps even later. That would depend upon how many senators were here to question. And I think in the morning we may have more questions. And I think it is a fair observation that we're not at our best. And we started at nine, so we're in the 10th or 11th hour. And we do have tomorrow to proceed and still meet the schedule that I had announced earlier.
I know that it's a likely inconvenience to some of the people who were on the later panels. Although nobody on the latter panels, if we were to finish tonight, would be out of this town tonight anyway. So it's really staying over. I know that in making your plans to come here you didn't know whether you'd testify on Thursday or Friday, and nobody else knew whether you'd testify on Thursday or Friday. We tried to follow the Roberts model. But on Roberts we finished up his testimony close to 11:00. And today we didn't start on the outside witnesses until 2:30. That's probably more than you want to know, but I like to tell you what's on my mind.
I see some of the witnesses on the later panels nodding in affirmative. Nobody seems to be too distressed about calling it a day at 6:36 after starting at 9 a.m. So we will begin tomorrow morning at 9:00.
KENNEDY: Mr. Chairman, could I enter in the record a letter from the National Association of Women's Lawyers in the appropriate place and then also a letter from Professor Higgenbotham (ph) as well in the appropriate place in the record?
SPECTER: Certainly, without objection, they will be placed in the record at what we conclude to be an appropriate place after consulting with you.
Thank you all very much. That concludes our hearing.
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