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OCR: Nothing in the legislative history TO Section 155 suggests that Congress intended the 1974 Act to away with the extrajudicial source reguirement. To the contrary the relevant portions the legislative hearings on the Act demonstrate that subsection a TO amended Section 455 intended preserve the longstanding rule that judges could not be disquali- fied on the hasis of alleged bias derived from judi- cial source Leading experts the field of judicial disqualification indicated that subsection not dramatically rewrite the law ot recusal for bias or prejudice, and there 1s every reason EO believe that Congress accepted those statements face value Regardless the continued vitality the extra judicial-source requirement, there n0 justifica- tion for concluding that judge's adverse rulings may serve ...