Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Stephen G. Breyer ·
83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1205 ·
Testimony Before Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law of the House Committee (2010).
Just over five years ago we testified together before a subcommittee
of the House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee to comment
on the Administrative Conference of the United States
(“Conference”). The occasion was the resumption of the Conference’s
activities—under the able leadership of the then recently appointed
Conference Chairman, Paul R. Verkuil—after a fifteen-year
period of dormancy that began in 1995 when the agency lost its funding.
Our testimony was largely informed by our own experiences with
the Conference during its previous incarnation—one of us as its
Chairman, the other as its long-time Liaison from the Judicial Conference
of the United States. As our contribution to this special issue
of The George Washington Law Review, marking the Conference’s fiftieth
anniversary, we are pleased to share with its readers the prepared
statements we submitted to the Judiciary Committee.
