What if they held a hearing and (almost) no one showed up? That's what happened at today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of former Texas District Judge Catherina Haynes to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. No sign of either Texas home senators John Cornyn or Kay Bailey Hutchison to introduce the nominee. And Cornyn is a member of the committee! But, then again, it's the Presidents' Day recess for Congress, even if panel chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, decided to hold a hearing anyway. The Republicans couldn't even muster a committee member to represent their side -- it was up to Sen. John Warner of Virginia to sit in for the GOP.
-- Maria Recio
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