verrilli's nomination.ry committee heard from many respected lawyers from across the political spectrum in support for mr. verrilli's nomination. eight former solicitors general from both republican and democrat administrations, among them republicans charles freeh, kenneth starr and gregory garrick concluded mr. verrilli is ideally suited to carry out the crucial task assigned to the solicitor general and to maintain the traditions of the office of solicitor general. more than 50 prominent supreme court practitioners urged the senate to confirm mr. verrilli's nomination, including conservatives like maureen ma hoe ni and miguel estrada. they wrote his approach of practicing law throughout his career, his insistence on coherently laying out reasons for the positions he is urging proves that don will protect and promote the rule of law. and i ask unanimous consent that copies of the letters of support be included in the record at the conclusion of my remarks. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lea

verrilli, i believe, is a good man. in normal circumstances, i would be willing to accept his nomination and vote for him. i'm not going to try to slow it down, glad to have the vote and cast my vote. i'm sure he'll be confirmed. but it's been reported in the media that president obama has now appointed 13 to 16 lawyers to high-ranking positions in the department who themselves previously represented alleged terrorists or their supporters or were senior partners at their law firms when their firms decided to accept alleged terrorists as clients. consistently, they support the view that terrorists are not -- are criminals and not unlawful combatants. that's all right to defend unpopular people, criminals that are unpopular. it's perfectly all right. but i just want to say as someone who loves the department, i am concerned about the positions they are taking on the question of the civilian trials of military combatants. i think it is wrong, and i have voted for the last one i'm going to vote for in positions of the depar

. >> the -- >> on monday the senate confirmed white house deputy council donald verrilli to succeed justice elena kagan. listen to him argue in 2008 or discussing the rehnquist court in 2004. he's just one of the more 104 people you can watch online at our c-span video library. it's washington your way. >> the american bar association commission on homelessness and poverty hosted a panel where three formerly homeless people. and it was discussed by columnist barbara ehrenreich author of the book "nickeled and dimed." this is 40 minutes. >> so thank you, everybody, for making day 1 of the forum a huge success. i've been at the law center now -- this week is actually my five-year anniversary at the law center. [applause] >> and to see the growth since the time that i started to where we are now is really incredible. and i'm excited to have been able to share it with you. this is only day 1 of the forum. day 2 is taking place on capitol hill tomorrow. so don't come back here in the morning. we have directions at the registration desk for those of you who need them. we're going to start the day

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. >> donald verilli -- verrilli replaces elena kagan. it is washington, your way. >> next, former officials talk about the growing number of global cyber attacks. this conference is hosted by the center for jiechi dick and international studies. this panel is 90 minutes. >> now they can hear us. >> good morning, we are here today to talk about cyber incidents. i am going to turn it over to jim. >> you should have introduced yourself. what we are going to do here today is bring out the cyber incidents. a lot of our foreign friends would do something, so we have had advice. what we are going to do here today, we have goals that are a little bit different from the normal discussions of cyber security. the secretary will keep some of them up for us. the u.s. has the national doctrine. it was previewed it in the may 29 speech. it finally emerges in the next year or two. it did not work. >> what is that declaratory policy? we will use all means to defend it. we have the very experienced at a distinguished panel that will tell us, when does som