Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Teddy Kennedy Today -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (313)	1/11/2006 4:03:47 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 729

DUI, vehicular manslaughter, leaving the scene, obstruction of justice, perjury. Penalty? Life term in U.S. Senate.

To: sandintoes who wrote (313)	1/11/2006 6:28:49 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 729

THE ALITO NOMINATION Biden criticizes Princeton Amid CAP showdown, senator says he 'wasn't a big Princeton fan' Mark Stefanski Jan. 11,2006 Daily Princetonian Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. — The conservative alumni group Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) has been the subject of criticism in recent weeks, but yesterday the University itself also came under scrutiny. Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), who grilled Samuel Alito '72 about his CAP membership, also said that he "wasn't a big Princeton fan." "I didn't even like Princeton," he said, to laughter from the gallery. "I mean, I really didn't like Princeton. I was an Irish Catholic kid who thought it had not changed like you concluded it had," referring to Alito's earlier statement that Princeton had changed its traditional ways before he enrolled. But Biden had nothing but praise for the University in a 2004 speech at the Wilson School. "It's an honor to be here," he told the audience. "It would have been an even greater honor to have come here." Biden also said yesterday: "One of my real dilemmas is I have two kids who went to Ivy League schools. I'm not sure my Grandfather Finnegan will ever forgive me for allowing that to happen." But in his speech at Princeton, he said, "I have three children who have mercifully all finally completed undergraduate and graduate school. And I tried to get all three of them to apply here." He went on to recall how he tried to convince them to attend Princeton, but because they didn't, he's "counting on his grandchildren."

To: sandintoes who wrote (313)	1/11/2006 6:34:15 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 729

Backstage Drama Abounds at Alito Hearings Jan 11 2006 By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON What passed for on-camera drama Wednesday came during a prickly yes-no exchange over whether Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., had received a letter from Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., asking that the committee seek certain papers related to Concerned Alumni of Princeton. Kennedy said he sent it. Specter said he didn't receive it. Kennedy said he must have received it. "I take umbrage at your telling me what I received," Specter said. "I don't mind your telling me what you mailed. But there's a big difference between what's mailed and what's received. And you know that." Kennedy demanded the committee go into closed session to vote on subpoenaing the documents from the Library of Congress. "And if I'm going to be denied that," Kennedy thundered, "I'd want to give notice to the chair that you're going to hear it again and again and again and we're going to have votes of this committee again and again and again until we have a resolution." "Well, Senator Kennedy, I'm not concerned about your threats," interrupted Specter. "I'm not going to have you run this committee and decide when we're going to go into executive session." With that, he turned his head away, banged the gavel and opened another round of questions. __