was sunstein, nominated to head the office of management and budget regulatory affairs division. mr. president, you could go to any law school in america today and name the top ten academics in law schools and was sunstein would be one of the ten on everyone's list but he's not good enough for the republicans to allow us to get him cleared. hilary comptons, nominated to be solicitor of the department of interior, the lawyer for the department of interior, and they have 70,000 employees. secretary salazar thinks it is a good idea he have a lawyer. they are not going to allow that. william sessions, nominated to be chair of the united states sentencing commission. listen to this one, mr. president: we have been toll the reason he is not going to get approved is because he is from vermont and senator leahy is chairman of the judiciary committee. they want to embarrass our friend, the chairman of that committee, pat leahy. harold hongju koh, state department legal advisor, like the interior department, the state department, secretary clinton wants a lawyer there. a lawyer with the hu