Questioning Judge Alito

Word counts for three rounds of Senate Judiciary Committee questions and answers.
by Jonathan Corum

Last week, the 18 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee were each given three opportunities to question Judge Samuel Alito: an initial round of 30 minutes, a second round of 10 minutes, and a third round of up to 25 minutes.

Below, the numbers of words used by each senator are shown in red for Republican senators and blue for Democratic senators. The numbers of words used by Judge Alito to respond to each senator are shown in gray.
 

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January 15, 2006.
Jonathan Corum is principal of 13pt, a design and development studio.