51.   Lopatto said the committee held a hearing for one of the six black judicial nominees on Wednesday.

52.   Miller is not a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has had the responsibility of reviewing judicial nominees throughout almost the entire history of the Senate.

53.   Now the Senate confirmation process for federal judicial nominees is being affected.

54.   Numerous professional studies have in fact found Clinton judicial nominees to be, overwhelmingly, centrist lawyers and judges.

55.   Of the judicial nominees who have cleared the committee in this Congress, she had waited the longest for a final vote on the floor.

56.   One judicial nominee, Charles Pickering, was rejected.

57.   Senator Joseph Biden, Democrat of Delaware, is expected to be named chairman of the powerful Judiciary Committee, which screens judicial nominees.

58.   Rove promised that Bush will send the Senate more conservative judicial nominees.

59.   Schumer staked out the most provocative view, insisting that ideology should again be an appropriate area of questioning for judicial nominees.

60.   Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the majority leader, has vowed to be tough on Clinton judicial nominees.