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Though seeming slightly agitated, Roberts kept his cool and responded, “With respect, they are my answers. And, with respect, they’re not misleading: they’re accurate.”
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., and Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71, D-N.Y., said outside the hearing room during a recess that they thought Roberts had not been entirely forthcoming with the committee.
When asked about memoranda he had written while working for former Presidents Ronald W. Reagan and George H. W. Bush, Roberts stressed that the views he expressed in those documents represented the views of those administrations, not necessarily his own.
Roberts largely declined to say which memos were representative of his own current views and which were not, noting that he had written many of them more than two decades ago.
At yesterday’s hearings, each senator on the Judiciary Committee was allowed 30 minutes to question Roberts, moving in order of seniority and alternating between Republican and Democratic members.