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Senate mulls re-staging Brown’s confirmation
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Posted on Jan 13 2005
The Senate is inclined to hold a session on Rota to officially put on record the confirmation of attorney general Pamela Brown.
Senate President Joaquin G. Adriano said that he discussed such possibility with deputy attorney general Clyde Lemons Wednesday.
The official personally went to Adriano’s office Wednesday morning to talk about the lack of Senate record on Brown’s confirmation in November 2003.
Adriano denied that Lemons served him a subpoena.
“He came to my office and we talked about that [subpoena] but it’s not necessary at this time,” the senator said.
Senate legal counsel Michael Ernest, in a separate interview, also said that no member of the Senate would be subpoenaed over the issue.
Adriano said that he had informed Lemons that the Senate may be inclined to hold a session on Rota to fix the Senate documentation of the attorney general’s confirmation.
The Senate majority said that they adopted a resolution recommending Brown as attorney general during a session on Nov. 17, 2003 on Rota. This confirmation was, however, not recorded in the Nov. 17 Senate journal.
“We might go back to adopt that resolution again. Since the confirmation happened on Rota, we may hold our session on Rota,” Adriano said.
Meantime, he said that the Senate has found the tape that that would prove that Brown was confirmed. The senator claimed that the recording was on side B of the tape.
“It’s on the side B. All along, they’re listening to side A,” he said.
Minority leader Pete P. Reyes earlier said that he had listened repeatedly to the tape and had heard nothing about Brown’s confirmation.
“We do have the copy of the tape. It’s on side B and this was never transcribed,” said Adriano.
Senate legal counsel Antonio Cabrera, who recently arrived from an off-island trip, declined to comment when asked about the lack of recording related to Brown’s confirmation.
Cabrera, who attended the 2003 Rota session, also said that he has not received any subpoena to appear in court.
