sentences:  He sat on the House Committee on the Judiciary.In 1853, President Pierce gave copies of his inaugural address to Cutting, rather than the Postmaster, fearing the latter and trusting the former.In March 1854, during debate over the Kansas–Nebraska Act, John C. Breckinridge, also a U.S. Representative, made a statement that incensed Cutting, Cutting demanded that he explain or retract it.