Senate Week

In honor of the Senate judiciary committee hearings for Sonia Sotomayor, we’re going to be featuring the members of the judiciary committee up for reelection in 2010.

For a good flavor of what is happening, just watch the hearings (lots available on You Tube).  The senators are filled with an over inflated sense of their own importance.

Those who are on the committee and up for reelection in 2010:

Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold (D)

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley (R)

New York Senator Chuck Schumer

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn

Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Spector

The full committee is:

• Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin
• Jeff Sessions, Ranking Member, R-Alabama
• Dianne Feinstein, D-California
• Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah
• Russell D. Feingold, D-Wisconsin
• Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa
• Charles E. Schumer, D-New York
• Jon Kyl, R-Arizona
• Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois
• Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina
• Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Maryland
• John Cornyn, R-Texas
• Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island
• Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma
• Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota
• Edward E. Kaufman, D-Delaware
• Arlen Specter, D-Pennsylvania
• Al Franken, D-Minnesota