He wanted more information on what Sotomayor meant by it, so he read the text of the entire speech online.
In the Senate the rules may appear to give him great power--Senators are required to sit completely mute and put in writing any question they have for witnesses so he can read it aloud--but in fact he has no power to decide anything.
He learned Portuguese, Latin and Spain's official language, Castilian, so that he could read geography books and try and map the world.
Mildly dyslexic since childhood, he memorizes almost everything, so he need only read things once.
I've asked Lancaster about this and he smirks cheekily and his eyes roll as if you are asking him about the first girl he ever fell in love with and then he'll say that he's read Walsh so many times he's lost count.
It all began Tuesday when Democratic Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois declared on the Senate floor he had something to read, though he did so, he said, with some hesitation.
Yet they were in awe of Dr. Fox, partly because he had read so many books.
Hooke did not intend his Diary to be read by anyone else, so he could be candid in his observations about himself and his contemporaries.
Ms. BLACKBURN: From everything that I've read about him, he sounds so--such a--I don't know, a good man.
Noah was unsurprised by the narrative I read off to him because he had so consciously crafted it.
He read everything he could about investing, so that by the time he had his first clients--inherited from a rep who died--he could talk the talk.
He did not read the standard canned speech that is so common at an event like this.
Frankly, he seemed open to anything at this point, so we can't read too much into that.
Now, his mother prints stories he writes for the Jersey Journal in extra-large print so his grandmother can read them.
He had a Bible and tried to read, but he often found that he lacked the concentration to do so.
"When you have a lot of foreign players, normally they don't read the newspapers, so the mind games for them are nothing, " he said last week.
The device remains on, so if the driver receives a new dispatch, it will beep and he can pull over and read the message.
He was an expert on this particular band and music from that era so I asked him to read my paper.
He first learned to use a computer because his handwriting was so small that his teachers couldn't read it.
"I am so desperate to know how it feels to read the most complicated book in the world, " said He Kuang, a 50-year-old civil servant in the coastal city Xiamen, who bought the translation.
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As a student he had dreamed of being a magazine illustrator, producing portraits so alluring that buyers would feel they had to read the stories.
"I just read bits and pieces of his manifesto and I just hope he's taken into custody so nobody and no officer gets hurt, " said Negrete.
He had a habit of ripping pages out once he had read them and stuffing them into his pocket or of letting them drift to the ground so as to lessen the freight.
He was also much criticised last year for admitting that he had not read the Lisbon treaty cover to cover, adding that nobody "sane" would do so.
So he welcomes the government's commitment to offer an apprenticeship to any young person who wants one, and can read and do sums, which was also one of the committee's recommendations.
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