Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Leahy takes a photograph before the start of the second day of US Attorney General nominee Mukasey's Senate confirmation hearings in Washington

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) takes a photograph before the start of the second day of U.S. Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey's Senate confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington October 18, 2007. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES)