i watched peery maysan every week with my dad and my mom and my brother and we watched the clock when we knew there was two minutes to the half hour that the murderer would stand up and confess. it was a great show. and it amazes me that you wanted to become a prosecutor based on the show because, in a perry mason, the prosecutor, burger, lost every week. [laughter] with one exception to which we will get to later. [laughter] but i think that says something about your determination to defy the odds. and while you're watching perry mason in the south bronx with your mom and your brother, i was watching perry mason in suburban minneapolis with my folks and my brother of the united states supreme court. i think that's pretty cool. [laughter] as i said in my opening statement, i see these proceedings both as a way to take a judgment of you and any nominee suitable for the high court, but also as a way for americans to learn about the court and its impact on their lives. right now people are getting more and more of their information on the internet. we are getting newspapers and televisio