we were given a fair hearing by the committee in the pretrail motions, and i thank the chair and vice chair for that opportunity. if you look at the record what occurred is that some senators agreed that they had difficulties with the aggregation issue, and mr. shift stood up and said, you don't have to decide because you have the authority to do this. you can go ahead and make determinations on individual issues. some senators raised this question, and it was ultimately not granted at that time. instead, we have submitted it to you. i will only submit to you that it makes no sense. honestly rs for the frame -- honestly, for the framers to go through the trouble of establishing a two-thirds vote requirement, but allow the house to simply ag aggregate charges that virtually guarantees that in many cases two-thirds of you will not agree on the reason you're removing a federal judge. that can't possibly be what the framers intended because they were not stupid men. they were very careful and deliberate men and they set up a standard that was exacting. now, the house also says in addition