[IMGCAP(1)] Sen. Joseph Biden’s (D-Del.) chief counsel, Todd Hinnen, breaks the news to witnesses that there will be no Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday. Republicans used a procedural tactic known as the “two-hour rule” to block the hearing from going forward as a protest over President Bush’s stalled judicial nominations. [IMGCAP(2)] Biden talks to the witnesses, who had planned to testify before the Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs on techniques to catch fugitives, in his Russell Building office.