U.S. Senator Ken Salazar Member of the Agriculture, Energy and Veterans Affairs Committees 2300 15^th Street, Suite 450 Denver, CO 80202 | 702 Hart Senate Building, Washington, D.C. 20510
For Immediate Release October 12, 2005		CONTACT: Cody Wertz – Press Secretary 202-228-3630 Jen Clanahan – Deputy Press Secretary 303-455-7600
Sen. Salazar Continues to Push White House for Information Denver, CO – I respect the President’s desire to seek advice from various sources about decisions as important as a nominee for the United States Supreme Court. However, I am disappointed that the White House would share information with powerful special interest groups but not with the United States Senate. Before his announcement, I communicated directly to the President and to then White House counsel Harriet Miers that the President should share potential nominees’ names with Senate leaders and members of the Judiciary Committee as part of the ‘advice and consent’ process. The Senate must be given the information necessary on judicial nominees in order for there to be informed consent. This episode where the White House consulted with powerful interests in the Republican Party but not sufficiently with the Senate is troubling and disappointing. I renew my call that the President provide sufficient and necessary information about his nominee for the United States Supreme Court to the Senate so we can perform our Constitutional duty of ‘advice and consent.’ # # #