How can we possibly justify placing the pending resolution. which has had no study and no hearings. no agency reports. and no review by the bar associations or by the Judicial Conference. and not one scintilla of urgency connected with it. ahead of the omnibus judgeship bill? How can we place this issue ahead of passport legislation? How can we place it ahead of the need to improve immigration legislation? How. indeed. can we place it ahead of the necessity to act in the field of civil rights. minimum pay. housing. school construction. medicare. situs picketing. or the five subjects mentioned by the majority leader to be dealt with at this session? They are all important. I hope that we will stay in session until we have dealt with those five problems. Certainly. this problem is not on the necessary list of anyone. It does not share importance in any way with these five measures. or immigration legislation. or civil rights legislation. or passport legislation. or many other pieces of proposed legislation on the long list of items on which the Senate ought to be acting at this time. We are faced with a rather extensive debate on the resolution. I do not know of any circumstances which justify approving a resolution which interferes with the explicit power granted to the President under article II. section 2. clause 3. of the Constitution pertaining to the making of recess appointments to the Supreme Court.
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