noted. a senator: thank you, mr. president. i rise today to add my voice, my strong support, to the confirmation of colorado supreme court justice allison he'd as the next judge for the tenth circuit. there is no doubt that justice eid is sue punishly qualified for that position. mr. gardner: for the past decade she has served colorado as a justice on the supreme court and in 2008 she was overwhelmingly retained by the people of colorado. we have a system where every decade the voters of colorado vote to retain or dismiss a judge, and every time that has come before the people of colorado, she has been overwhelmingly retained by the people of colorado. prior to her appointment, justice eid represented the state of colorado before the state and federal courts as our state solicitor general. she served as a tenured member of the faculty at the university of colorado's law school, where she taught courses in constitutional law, legislation, torts, and has published scholarly articles on...