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To: Wayners who wrote (708574)	10/24/2005 11:02:41 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

This should be fun: "Committee likely to call Dobson, senator says The Focus on the Family leader is wanted for what he knows about high-court nominee Harriet Miers. By Charles Babington The Washington Post Washington - The Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to summon a leading conservative Christian to explain the private assurances he says he received from the White House about Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, the committee's chairman said Sunday. Testimony by Focus on the Family founder James Dobson of Colorado Springs would heighten the political and religious overtones of the already- high-stakes confirmation hearing for Miers, scheduled to start two weeks from today. Dobson is among several evangelical leaders enlisted by the White House to vouch for Miers' conservative credentials among right-leaning groups unhappy with her nomination. He spoke with Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove shortly before President Bush announced the nomination and later hinted he had received privileged information. "When you know some of the things that I know - that I probably shouldn't know - you will understand why I have said, with fear and trepidation, that Harriet Miers will be a good justice," Dobson told his national radio audience Oct. 5. Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said Sunday that his panel is likely to require Dobson and perhaps others to testify about such purported conversations. Asked on CBS's "Face the Nation" whether the committee will "bring some of these people who said they were told things that perhaps they shouldn't have been told, like Mr. Dobson," Specter replied: "My instinct is that they'll be called. And the American people are entitled to clarification." Specter has expressed interest in Dobson's comments before, but Sunday marked the clearest signal that the broadcaster might be required to face the 18- member committee in public. The Miers nomination continues to face resistance from liberals concerned about her stated support for a constitutional ban on abortion in most cases, and by conservatives who feel her resúmé is thin and her close ties to Bush are the only reason she was tapped. Miers, the White House counsel, was Bush's personal attorney in Texas in the 1990s. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., one of the committee's most conservative members, told "Fox News Sunday" that questions about Miers' views on abortion, affirmative action and other issues obligate the White House to release more information about her than it has provided thus far. "We're going to have to see more information - not attorney-client- privilege-type information but more information of the work product that she was involved in," he said. Although some conservative commentators have urged the White House to withdraw Miers' nomination, senators said it is unlikely. "I think they have complete faith in her, as I do," said Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas."