00:00In this connection, is it truthful and fair to allow senators to cast their votes despite being absent from the
00:08proceedings?
00:10Is it fair and truthful should these senators be allowed to vote though they are in hiding, abroad, legally detained,
00:21sick, hospitalized, or otherwise absent,
00:25and have not been able to access and examine the documents, have not heard the testimonies, and have not observed
00:34the demeanor of the witnesses?
00:37To put it more pictureously, Your Honor, is it truthful and fair to the parties, to our country, and to
00:46our people to allow those abroad,
00:49those looking at the pyramids along the Nile, or shopping in the fashion houses of Paris, or riding the romantic
00:59gondolas of Venice,
01:01or deliberately hiding in the dark corners of the world, while everyone here, everyone here in this hall,
01:10is sweating it out, listening to sometimes irrelevant and loquacious lawyers, or to humble and ancient amicus curate like me?
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