Senate Judiciary update... Senate Judiciary update...

From WaPo:

Senate Republican leaders yesterday appointed two of Congress's most outspoken antiabortion members to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is bracing for potentially bruising hearings on nominations to the Supreme Court.

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Sen.-elect Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) will join the panel's eight returning Republicans next month, assuming the Republican Conference follows tradition and approves the leadership's committee assignments for all 55 GOP senators. The breakdown of Judiciary will be 10 Republicans and eight Democrats.

For the memory-challenged, our dear friend Tom Coburn thinks that lesbians have made it unsafe for Oklahoma schoolchildren to use the restroom, and that people who perform abortions should be executed.

And Brownback? In 1999 he told a Kansas crowd that abortion was causing a social security crisis:

Sen. Sam Brownback says Social Security is in trouble in part because too many abortions mean too few workers available to pay into the system.

"A lot of people won't like this comment," the Kansas Republican said Friday to an audience of high school and college students at Butler County Community College. "You can see a real impact in the abortion policy we've had in this country. We have a lot fewer people out here. You can see we have a lot fewer workers coming on board."

The actual article is subscription-only, but there's a google cache of it here.