Topic: Preliminary Statement
Senator: Specter
Date: SEPTEMBER 14, 2005
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SPECTER: The committee will now proceed with the confirmation hearing of Judge Roberts to be chief justice of the United States.
One preliminary statement: I noted after the session yesterday that there was some comment about my statement when I asked Senator Biden to allow you to continue to respond, or to respond at all, and he then interjected that you were misleading the committee.
My statement was, "While they may be misleading, they are his answers." It was in the subjective, and I was not suggesting that your answers were misleading. But in that moment, the object was to let you answer.
If somebody wants to characterize them one way or another, they can do that and you can respond. And I was not suggesting in any way, shape or form that they were misleading. And you picked it right up and said that they weren't misleading.
There are sometimes differences of opinion between the person asking the question and the person answering the question, but there was no doubt in my find as to the fact that they were not misleading.
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