Jim Bunning: “I only say to my good friend, the senior Senator, that even some of the newer judges with whom you and I are familiar…”

“I only say to my good friend, the senior Senator, that even some of the newer judges with whom you and I are familiar are now having to do 2-week tours of duty over at the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals--they have only been on the district bench for 2 years--to try to catch up the backlog we have at the Sixth Circuit Court. If we could only get a little better cooperation out of certain Senators from Michigan, maybe we could fill those four vacant seats in a rational and reasonable way.”