schumer: if i might just respond again with nominee alito, now justice alee together, theralito, therewas ti understand it. according to chairman leahy, it was the republicans that asked that we go to that christmas break, not the democrats. in justice roberts' case, i believe katrina intervened and everybody had to drop everything and work on the emergency of katrina. if you look at days where the record is available -- and it's been available right from the get-go here -- and no vacation, no intervening long recesses and things like that, the nominee knee will have -- or the minority leader or any senator here will have more time to scrutinize this record than we've had for most other judges. and, again, underscored by the fact that the record is public, open and ample. it's not, you know -- no one has to go look for needles in a haystack to try and figure out what the record of judge sotomayor is. it's very extensive and ample. with justice roberts, we only had a few years where he was on the bench and all the rest of his record was in executive -- in the executive. and it took us weeks -