but fidelity -- but regality, i mean living within our means. would have $85, we cannot spend $100. the governor has a private jet and new mentioned. i rented an apartment across from the state capital for myself. [applause] taxes or cut, not increased, but cut. i don't like to spend money. not my own and not the taxpayers. the two republican candidates for governor say they want to run the state like a business but they set a national record for waste and excessive spending. california was built by pioneers who led the world of innovation. i myself voted for a stake satellite. i also pushed for renewal energy with windmills and the desert. i was called a modern-day don quixote. california had over 90% of the world's renewable energy. [applause] in this campaign, you will hear about what i did and did not do. anyone willing to confront the conventional wisdom and take bold action -- [unintelligible] california can be covered and i have no doubt that we will produce the jobs in grenoble energy, medical advances, the materials, designs for living

stricken by as a regal hemorrhage while preserving -- presiding over the accord, chief justice stonewas replaced by fred vinson. he supported the tom clark, president truman's attorney general in 1949. i am pleased and privileged to call my friend, the justice tom clark's daughter -- mimi, are you here? there she is. it is wonderful to see you. thank you for being here. justice frankfurter continued his influence as his tenure moved toward its conclusion in the early 1960's. president john f. kennedy told3 bradlee they're replacing frankfurter with another jewish justice was too obvious and keep. nevertheless, he did so in 1962 with oldberg. jfk consulttd about his choice with both justice frankfurter and chief justice of world war in. kennedy's successor and lyndon johnson -- chief justice earl warren. lyndon johnson looked to sitting justices to affirm his choices. fortis preferred his lucrative practice in washington as well as his partisan support for his friend, lbj. johnson twisted the arms of two rereluctant men. he sent fortis to the high court as associate justice. the jewis

and he regaled me on the history of the senate and the books he had written. and i was mesmerized in the presence of this giant of the legislative body. and at the end he, as i'm sure he did to so many of us, he took a rectangular painting of a covered bridge in west virginia. mr. obey is going to speak at some point in time and mr. obey has a similar painting hanging in his office. that's not the original because bob byrd gave it to so many of us. but i looked at that and i thought to myself, what a kind gesture, how impressed i was this young member of congress being accorded this kind of respect from this giant of the united states senate. robert c. byrd will be duly missed by us all. and he will be missed most of all when very difficult issues confront the legislative body, and there is a clamor that the legislative agree with the executive for whatever reason, a clamor that all too often emanates from fear of this, that or the other. and in that fear would ignore the constitutional role played by the congress of the united states. it is then that we will

.%% so we have an administration and majority who are ecstatic thinking that the emperor has regal clothes on and the economy is doing great and the stimuluu is working so very well because we cceated 411,000 jobs last month for temporary census workers. that emperor has no clothes on. it's not a great economy. now, it should be. it's trying to be. it's trying to come back. but as the private sector tries to do better, boom, we hit them with a health care bill that is going to cost so much more money than ever before. telling businesses you have over 50 employees, then you are going to get hammered with a tax. so we are hearing people say, we had 56. we had to let people go. we can't be over that cap. we have people being let go because the health care costs are now going to be so much in the added taxes are hidden. yoo have people that are selling homes and there are going to be added taxes for them..%% this was supposed to be a health care bill that helped the working poor and yet when i was at a jobs fair in marshall, texas, a few weeks ago, i had one gentleman tell me, look, we are giv

she responded rather regal the, what role has the court played in appointments? has it been a bystander or an active participant? for a moment, much potential -- my professional life flashed before my eyes. i had been invited to give a talk at the u.s. supreme court with the chief justice and other important dignitaries and i had been given a trick question. the founders had not assigned a role for the court in the appointment of its own members. unfortunately for you, i felt someehing like to talk about this evening. i pondered jennifer's question and recalled instances when members of the high tribunal had played a part in the selection of the individuals to occupy its bench. sitting justices have suggested nominees for have supported nominees for the court supported by the president. i am going to report you to your scorecard. this is a table i have handedd out. it includes historical examples of sitting justices supporting judicial nominees from 1853 to 1974. as best i can determine, after five months of research 1853 marks the first instance of the court suc