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It’s Time to Consider Ending Lifetime Judicial Appointments

By Norman J. Ornstein
Roll Call Contributing Writer
Oct. 22, 2003, Midnight

The judicial confirmation process is a mess. There is no sign, anywhere, that it will get better. We are in the midst of a downward spiral, with growing frustrations and animosities on both sides that threaten to shatter whatever remaining comity exists in the Senate. I have wracked my brain to think of ways to alter this spiral. Standard issue reforms won’t work. It is time to consider something more radical.

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May 22, 2012

Rumi Pazos, 6, and his mother, Christi Funk, from Orange County, Ca., attend a news conference Tuesday in front of the Capitol on the Safe Chemical Act, which would update the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. To support the bill, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families rallied moms, nurses and cancer survivors to participate in a “stroller brigade” throughout the Capitol complex.

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