Judd Gregg: “My point was, if there had been a vote which had invoked cloture so that we could have completed the business of the…”

“My point was, if there had been a vote which had invoked cloture so that we could have completed the business of the PATRIOT Act, we would have a vote on final passage of the PATRIOT Act, and it would have been put into law because a majority of Members were for it. So since the Democratic leader basically led the opposition to cloture, therefore led the opposition to the ability to get to a final vote on the PATRIOT Act, it does seem to me that you are a little bit in the position right now like the person about 50 years ago in New Hampshire who shot his parents and then, when he was brought before the court on the murder charge, threw himself on the mercy of the court because he claimed he was an orphan. Are you an orphan?”