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HARRY & CHUCK'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

April 28, 2005

Field Trip to Jefferson Memorial Today Shows Little More
Than Promising Futures as Washington Tour Guides

(Washington, DC) - The Coalition for a Fair Judiciary today called Minority Leader Harry Reid, Senator Charles Schumer and other colleagues' press conference opposing filibuster reform at the Jefferson Memorial "an exercise in public relations futility."

"Apparently the misinformation campaign about filibuster reform and the constitutional option isn't working so given their last field trip to the FDR memorial to decry the President's social security reform plan, they seem to believe that a monument will give credence to their talking points, " said Kay Daly, president of the Coalition for a Fair Judiciary. "While the Jefferson Memorial is a beautiful spot for a press conference, I'm quite certain that the American public doesn't view geographic location relevant in the face of the extraordinary, unfair and unprecedented obstruction of extraordinarily well qualified judicial nominees."

Thomas Jefferson once wrote, "The voice of the majority decides. For the lex majoris partis is the law of all councils, elections, etc., where not otherwise expressly provided." (Thomas Jefferson: Parliamentary Manual, 1800. ME 2:420) While Senate Republicans are trying to restore over 200 years of Senate tradition by ensuring a fair and simple up or down for nominees or save Social Security for future generations, the Senate Democratic caucus is taking a tour of monuments in Washington.

"Rather than offering real solutions to real problems that affect real people in America, Reid, Schumer and their colleagues are traipsing from memorial to memorial in some bizarre attempt to legitimize the misinformation they continue to spout," said Daly. "My biggest fear is that in their tour of the monuments they might discover several mentions of 'God', which could send them completely over the edge."

The Coalition for a Fair Judiciary strongly supports the constitutional option and the confirmation of Terrence Boyle, William Pryor and Brett Kavanaugh. Today at 9:30 AM, the Senate Judiciary Committee considered the Boyle, Pryor and Kavanaugh nominations.

"The confirmation of these nominees and the restoration of Constitutional principles to the confirmation process should be the story of the day," said Daly, "Not 'Harry and Chuck's Excellent Adventure.'"