Transcript of Michael Brown's Confirmation Hearing

[Roland99]

http://www.voluntarytrade.org/downloads/Brown_ConfirmHrg.pdf (PDF format)


Enjoy.




BTW, does anyone know the vote count for Brown's confirmation on Aug. 1, 2002? I can't find it. Seems others can't, either:

http://blog.mises.org/blog/archives/004054.asp

I can't find even a report of what the vote was on the nomination as under-secretary. Senate site seemingly has the vote on every other confirmation ever, but not his one. Does anyone know when and what the vote was?

Posted by: jcb at September 6, 2005 03:58 PM

[Bumblebee]

1. I assumed there was no senate confirmation since FEMA was

a part of Homeland Security...

[Roland99]

2. He was confirmed on Aug. 1, 2002 but I can't find any vote information

I also haven't had time to pore over that document to see what other lies might be in it.

[Bumblebee]

4. I know he was confirmed somehow but there may have not been

a vote -- I vaguely remember hearing something along these lines...

[madfloridian]

3. I read somewhere it was a voice vote.

May not be a count.

[Roland99]

6. Wouldn't there still be a record of it?

[madfloridian]

8. Not always.

At least that is my understanding.

[Roland99]

9. Not even in the Congressional record?

I didn't try searching there.


Hmm...should at least be a news article somewhere.

[Roland99]

10. This is all I found

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r107:15:./temp/~r107Ppit8I::

Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate August 1, 2002:

<...>

FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Michael D. Brown, of Colorado, to be Deputy Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Along with a bazillion others. Just a rubber-stamp.

[OneBlueSky]

5. yet another reason that the notion that "Bush should be able . . .

to appoint whomever he wants" is horseshit . . . the Democrats have consistently given Bush appointees a pass with little or no scrutiny based on the supposition that a president should be able to appoint his own people without interference from the opposition . . . and look where it's gotten us . . .

every Bush appointment from here on out should be scrutinized with a fine tooth comb . . . including that of Chief Justice . . . and if the appointees aren't qualified, they should be rejected . . . having high government officials actually who are actually qualified to do the jobs they're appointed to is simply too important to leave it to political cronyism . . .

[Roland99]

7. YES! Thank you!!